{"product_id":"lambs-to-the-slaughter-blake-banner-9781636964867","title":"Lambs to the Slaughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Bronx doesn't forgive mistakes. Neither do its killers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bronx is full of places where people disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetectives Roth and Hersch have spent years working the 41st Precinct. They know the streets, the gangs, the addicts, the violence-and how quickly a death can become just another file on a desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a young woman's body washes up at Hunts Point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has been beaten, raped, and strangled. At first, it appears to be another brutal killing in a borough that has learned to live with brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she is not the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince January 2023, women have been turning up dead across the Bronx. Each was poor. Each was undocumented. Each had no identification, no family willing to come forward, and no one with the power to demand answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis victim has fingerprints in the system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing her trail pulls Roth and Hersch into a world far beyond the precinct: shell companies, predatory property deals, a secretive religious organization, and Xin Yue-the beautiful, unreadable manager of the Church of the Rapture of Jehova.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of it all is an address in Hunts Point: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e739 Coster Street.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA place with a secret worth killing for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if Roth and Hersch uncover it, they may be next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Banner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1636964869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781636964867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Right House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Blake Banner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002304241919,"sku":"9781636964867","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lambs-to-the-slaughter-blake-banner-9781636964867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}