First published 2020
Detective Garrett Dobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble think they have their killer locked up in Los Angeles. Then another identical murder happens. And another. The bodies pile up from California to New York as a methodical killer cuts a path across America. The investigation points to the Fitzgeralds, a family harboring dark secrets from an unusual past. Michael drives long-haul trucks while his sister Megan studies psychology in college. Both were adopted by prominent academics who raised them in isolation, conducting psychological experiments that left deep scars. The siblings trust only each other, bound by traumatic experiences they refuse to reveal. As more victims surface in different states, Dobbs and Gimble face a crucial question: which member of this damaged family is the killer? The answer lies buried in the twisted dynamics of adoptive parents who treated their children like test subjects rather than family.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: cat-and-mouse, damaged-family, serial-killer
Setting: California, New York
Period: 21st-century
555 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company
Content warnings: murder, violence