Part of FBI Thriller, book 17
First published 2013
Griffin Hammersmith receives the call every brother dreads. His sister Delsey lies unconscious in a Virginia hospital, naked and drenched in blood that belongs to someone else. The music student was found after a party gone wrong, but she remembers nothing. Griffin was heading to Washington to join Dillon Savich's elite FBI unit when the crisis hit. Savich recruited him for his unusual gift for understanding criminal minds. Now Griffin must prove that instinct works. In the capital, Savich and his partner Sherlock investigate their own nightmare. The grandson of a former Federal Reserve chairman turns up dead at the Lincoln Memorial, every bone shattered, his body frozen solid. Two cases demand answers. Griffin races to identify who tried to destroy his sister before the killer strikes again. The team works to decode a murder that required both savage violence and cold calculation. Griffin's ability to think like criminals faces its ultimate test across both investigations.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Lincoln Memorial, Virginia, Washington
Period: 21st-century
400 pages · Hardcover · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Content warnings: violence