First published 2014
Emmy Dockery sits surrounded by newspaper clippings that cover her bedroom walls. The FBI researcher has taken leave from her job, convinced that hundreds of unsolved kidnappings, rapes, and murders share a common thread. Her colleagues think she has lost her mind. Her recurring nightmares about an all-consuming fire offer no relief. Even her ex-boyfriend Harrison "Books" Bookman, a field agent, dismisses her theory that a single perpetrator connects these crimes. Then Emmy uncovers evidence that Books cannot ignore. New murders surface daily, each more baffling than the last. No clear motives emerge. No murder weapons are found. No suspects appear. The crimes seem impossible to solve, yet they continue to multiply. Emmy must prove that one person orchestrates this wave of violence before more victims fall.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, unreliable-narrator
399 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company