by Lis W. Wiehl
First published 2015
Prosecutor Mia Quinn thinks she has a slam dunk murder case until the defendant claims self defense. He says the dead woman attacked him first. The media calls her a "lethal beauty." Quinn's case falls apart when her star witness vanishes. The victim's mother decides to take justice into her own hands. Meanwhile, Seattle detective Charlie Carlson stares at a corpse pulled from Puget Sound. No fingerprints on file. No dental records. No missing person report matches. Then a pianist gets shot dead during church service while the congregation watches in horror. Three murders. No obvious connections. Quinn and Carlson dig deeper and find the cases aren't random at all. Someone is pulling strings from above. The body count rises as they close in on the truth. Now the killer targets someone close to home. Quinn and Carlson race to stop the next murder before they lose someone they care about.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Seattle, Puget Sound
304 pages · Hardcover · Thomas Nelson
Content warnings: murder, violence