Gardiner and Renner #1
Kensington
May 2016
On Sale: April 26, 2016
Featuring: Maggie Gardiner
336 pages ISBN: 1496701887 EAN: 9781496701886 Kindle: B0138NH8XW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In this tour de force of psychological suspense, bestselling
author Lisa Black draws from her experience as a forensic
investigator to create two of the most fascinating
characters in crime fiction: a killer with a unique sense of
justice and a woman in a lifelong relationship with death…
As a forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police
Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does.
The latest is an unidentified female in her early teens,
discovered in a local cemetery. More shocking than the
girl's injuries--for Maggie at least--is the fact that no
one has reported her missing. She and the detectives
assigned to the case (including her cop ex-husband) are
determined to follow every lead, run down every scrap of
evidence. But the monster they seek is watching every move,
closer to them than they could possibly imagine.
Jack Renner is a killer. He doesn't murder because he enjoys
it, or because he believes himself omnipotent, or for any
reason other than to make the world a safer place. When he
follows the trail of this Jane Doe to a locked room in a
small apartment where eighteen teenaged girls are anything
but safe, he knows something must be done. But his pursuit
of their captor takes an unexpected turn.
Maggie Gardiner finds another body waiting for her in the
autopsy room--and a host of questions that will challenge
everything she believes about justice, morality, and the
true nature of evil …