"Suspense at its thrilling finest"
Assistant District Attorney Kate Megason works the sure
thing prosecution on the capital case of Burton Ellis,
accused of the brutal murder of two convenience store
clerks. However, Kate becomes irritated when her
political supervisors assign former cop Frank Matron as
her investigator; Frank was injured in a Mideast suicide
bombing while serving as a deployed reservist. Kate knows
that he has not physically healed and assumes that he is
also mentally disturbed. Frank immediately observes something that makes no sense.
The accused took out a hidden camera that he should not
have known existed. Even weirder in the robbery gone bad
case is the strange fact that not all the loot was taken.
Why would he leave anything behind? As Kate begins to
heed all that Frank opines, they work together to uncover
the truth in spite of someone with connections wanting the
real facts to remain buried. Readers will grip the pages tightly as this tense legal
thriller hooks the audience to anticipate a DEAD RECKONING
between the ADA and her investigator vs. an unknown brutal
individual whose avarice is biblical in proportions. The
story line is action-packed starting with Frank proving
his worth from the start and never slows down until the
final confrontation as the close and shut case becomes
open and dangerous. This is suspense at its thrilling
finest. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 15, 2005
Summary"Rife with action and passion," raved The Dallas
Morning News about Linda Castillo's gripping novels of
romantic suspense. "Exhilarating," praised Midwest Book
Review. Now, the award-winning author presents an
intensely dramatic thriller of vengeance, desire, and the
unyielding power of justice...
Assistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case
of her career—a senseless double homicide caught on
video. But before she can bring it to trial, someone starts
sending her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows
Kate's deep, dark secret...
Eleven years ago, Kate and her seventeen-year-old twin
sister were brutalized and left for dead. Kate survived, but
her sister was left brain damaged, her life
destroyed—and the perpetrators were never caught.
Now, Kate needs the help of Frank Matrone—an
investigator with his own shadowy secrets—to help her
discover whether the maniac she escaped all those years ago
is the same madman taunting her now. If she and Frank don't
succeed, Kate's brutal past will likely be repeated. Only
this time, she won't survive...
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