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Also by Meg Gardiner:

Shadowheart, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Heat 2, February 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Dark Corners of the Night, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Dark Corners of the Night, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Into the Black Nowhere, February 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Unsub, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Shadow Tracer, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Ransom River, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Nightmare Thief, August 2011
Hardcover
The Liar's Lullaby, June 2011
Paperback
The Liar's Lullaby, July 2010
Hardcover
The Memory Collector, June 2009
Hardcover
Kill Chain, October 2008
Paperback (reprint)
Kill Chain, October 2008
Paperback
Crosscut, September 2008
Paperback
Jericho Point, August 2008
Paperback (reprint)
Mission Canyon, July 2008
Paperback (reprint)
China Lake, June 2008
Paperback (reprint)
The Dirty Secrets Club, June 2008
Hardcover

THE NIGHTMARE THIEF
By: Meg Gardiner

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett returns in a fourth taut, groundbreaking thriller from Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner.

Jo Beckett #4
Dutton
August 2011
On Sale: July 21, 2011
Featuring: Jo Beckett; Gabe Quintana.
ISBN: 0525952217
EAN: 9780525952213
Hardcover
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Autumn Reiniger expects something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddy’s already bought her the sports car, the apartment, and admission to the private college where she parties away her weekends. Now she wants excitement, and she’s going to get it.

Her father signs up Autumn and five friends for an “ultimate urban reality” game: a simulated drug deal, manhunt, and jailbreak. It’s a high-priced version of cops and robbers, played with fake guns and fast cars on the streets of San Francisco. Edge Adventures alerts the SFPD ahead of time that a “crime situation” is underway, so the authorities can ignore the squealing tires and desperate cries for help.

Which is convenient for the gang of real kidnappers zeroing in on their target and a mammoth payday. Because what Daddy doesn’t know is that someone has spotted his hedge fund’s bulging profits, and the path to those riches runs right through Daddy’s Little Girl.

Working on a case nearby is forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and her partner Gabe Quintana. When the pair encounters a suspicious group of men carting six sullen college kids to the woods for a supposed wilderness adventure, alarm bells ring. Jo takes a closer look, and winds up with an invite to Autumn Reiniger’s twenty-first birthday party—a party they may never leave.