Part of Pendergast, book 17
First published 2018
Grace Ozmian disappears from her tech billionaire father's world, and the NYPD figures the wild young woman has taken off on another adventure. Then her headless corpse turns up in a Queens warehouse. Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta catches the case and welcomes FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast to the investigation. Pendergast compares himself to Brer Rabbit thrown into the briar patch, delighted to work with D'Agosta again since their first case at the Museum of Natural History. The killer strikes again, leaving more decapitated victims across the metropolitan area. Something about the city itself draws this murderer's attention. Mass panic spreads as the body count rises. The killer targets Pendergast and D'Agosta directly, threatening the city's core. Pendergast must use every skill he possesses to identify this enemy and survive the confrontation.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, investigative-journalism
Setting: New York, Queens
Period: 21st-century
359 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder