When Gina Ford, the daughter of a
prominent Tennessee politician, goes missing from the
University of Memphis a week after another girl was murdered
on the same campus, police call in the FBI. Nick Hagar,
married to his job as Special Agent in Charge, is assigned
to the case, and when Gina’s body is found, her father
demands justice.
Maddie Baxter is the forensic expert running DNA tests from
the crime scene. When they come back without a match, Nick
asks her to do a familial DNA run that yields a shocking
result: the prime suspect is Adam Alexander, the very same
guy who broke Maddie’s heart when she was in college.
But do scientific advancements tell the whole story? STRAND
OF DECEPTION offers romance, suspense, and a lively debate
about the impact of DNA testing, for better or worse, on the
United States justice system.