# Shut Your Eyes Tight

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- Book: [Shut Your Eyes Tight](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-verdon/shut-your-eyes-tight) ([Shut Your Eyes Tight.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-verdon/shut-your-eyes-tight.md))
- Authors: [John Verdon](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-verdon)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-871-0
- Pages: 592
- Published: 2012-02-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Once a cop. Always a cop . . . Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can't seem to solve. A young bride has been killed in the middle of her own wedding reception. The prime suspect - her new husband's Mexican gardener - is missing. As is the murder weapon - likely a machete - used to decapitate the bride. The police have drawn a blank. It's as if the killer has vanished into thin air. But when Gurney begins his investigations, he finds that a baffling murder is just the latest of many sadistic crimes committed by an individual who'll do anything to avoid capture.