by Lisa Jackson
First published 2015
Twin sisters from All Saints College disappear just before their twenty-first birthday. Detective Rick Bentz recognizes the pattern immediately. Years ago in Los Angeles, he worked a case involving ritualistic murders of twins killed precisely as they turned twenty-one. The wrong man went to prison for those crimes. Now the real killer has surfaced in New Orleans, Bentz's current territory. Reporter Jase Bridges sees career-making potential in the story, especially when Brianna Hayward approaches the police insisting her imprisoned cousin is innocent. Brianna desperately wants to free her relative and stop the true murderer before he strikes again. But Jase harbors a dangerous secret that could destroy everything if Brianna discovers it. As Bentz and his partner Reuben Montoya race to follow the killer's trail, the murderer prepares his next victims. His methods never vary: twins murdered together in elaborate rituals, their deaths timed to the exact moment of their shared birthday. The hunt intensifies as the killer closes in on his targets.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, investigative-journalism, serial-killer
Setting: All Saints College, Los Angeles, New Orleans
Period: 21st-century
305 pages · Kindle Edition · Zebra Books
Content warnings: murder, violence