Brutally attacked 11 years previous, Kate Megason has
dedicated her life to putting violent men behind bars. As
the youngest up-and-coming Assistant District Attorney in
Dallas, Kate is in the perfect position to accomplish her
goals. The DA has just given her a high profile capital
murder case that will take her places if she wins. Kate
sets up her team of experts, but the DA demands she also
accept an investigator, one Frank Matrone. Reluctantly,
Kate agrees.
Frank, a retired 12-year veteran police officer, lives with
excruciating pain. He almost lost his leg during an
explosion while in the military reserves. The blast killed
the woman he loved and left Frank with not only physical
scars, but emotional ones, as well. A man with good gut
instincts, but blindly dismissive of the fact he's addicted
to painkillers, Frank finds a reason in Kate to turn his
life back toward the living.
Someone knows about the horror in Kate's past and uses it
to get to her. Kate doesn't know if it's the man she's been
searching for the past 11 years or someone else. What she
does know is that she fears facing the past, and the danger
is escalating daily. Kate has no avenue other than to
confide in Frank as his persistence and the state of events
wears her down.
Having already read one of Linda Castillo's previous
books, I knew I was in for a few hours of excitement and
graphically chilling prose. She pulls me into the scene. I
fear for the victims. I feel the danger shrouding them as
the evil approaches. And I cheer for the victorious good
overcoming evil. DEAD RECKONING opens the window to real
issues in our society and the limitless measures evil
people will expend in order to accomplish their crimes.
Castillo's stories always have a place on my bookshelf.
Assistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case
of her career—a senseless double homicide caught on video.
But before she can bring it to trial, someone starts sending
her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows Kate’s
deep, dark secret…
Eleven years ago, Kate and her seventeen year old twin
sister were brutalized and left for dead. Kate survived, but
her sister was left brain damaged, her life destroyed—and
the perpetrators were never caught.
Now, Kate needs the help of Frank Matrone—an investigator
with his own shadowy secrets—to help her discover whether
the maniac she escaped all those years ago is the same
madman taunting her now. If she and Frank don’t succeed,
Kate’s violent past will likely be repeated. Only this time,
she may not survive...
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