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A detective and FBI agent join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case -- but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time in this intense thriller. Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown -- Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology -- they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. Their parents are public intellectuals, an Ivy League clinical psychologist and a renowned psychiatrist, and they brought up their adopted children in a rarefied, experimental environment. It sheltered them from the world's harsh realities, but it also forced secrets upon them, secrets they keep at all costs. In Los Angeles, Detective Garrett Dobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble have joined forces to work a murder that seems like a dead cinch. Their chief suspect is quickly identified and apprehended --but then there's another killing just like the one they've been investigating. And another. And not just in Los Angeles -- the spree spreads across the country. The Fitzgerald family comes to the investigators' attention, but Dobbs and Gimble are at a loss -- if one of the four is involved, which Fitzgerald might it be? From coastal California to upstate New York, Dobbs and Gimble race against time and across state lines to stop an ingenious and deeply deranged killer -- one whose dark and twisted appetites put them outside the range of logic or experience.
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What a roller coaster ride! So many twists and turns. As soon as you think you know what's going on there is another twist. Kept me enthralled from start to finish. Highly recommended.
Enjoyed it as a thriller, had no idea where it was going for most of the last third. I could se myself re-reading it in the future to figure it out again.
I absolutely hated that when we switched to the sister's POV, its a sexualised description of her naked body almost the first thing. She finds out her brother's being framed for murder and “tweaks her nipples” for no reason. It makes me a little upset just thinking about it. There was no narrative reason for her to be naked, even less reason to do the nipple thing and it just read like the authors wanted you to know the character was attractive. Which we find out over the course of the book when she flirts with men to get things she needs, so we didn't even need the reveal.
I liked the plot, and would have gone on to read more from the author but if there's more of the same in his books I think I'll skip.