The next day, a terrible housefire envelops the nearby home of a retired fireman, nearly killing his two granddaughters. The last words the little girls heard him mutter before he set the blaze were, be a match.
As the body count rises, it’s only Josie who can see the deadly pattern forming. Can she convince her team that the wrapper found in Nysa’s bag that everyone overlooked is the crucial link they’re missing? Not while her partner, Noah, is avoiding her calls and acting so coldly towards her. Josie knows she must go it alone if she’s going to stop this silent and calculated serial killer before any more precious lives are taken.
But with the killer finally in her sights, Josie takes a deadly risk and finds herself hanging onto life by her fingernails. Can she trust her team to save her, and before it’s too late?
An unputdownable and totally gripping crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine.
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Acknowledgments
Wonderful readers! I cannot believe we are on Book 11! I hope that you’ll continue this journey with me. The past year has been very difficult to write through with the state of the world, but your unwavering passion for this series has kept me going every single day. I am so grateful for you and to you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you, as always, to my husband, Fred, and my daughter, Morgan, for all your patience and support. Thank you to my first readers: Dana Mason, Katie Mettner, Nancy S. Thompson, Maureen Downey, and Torese Hummel. Thank you to Cindy Doty. Thank you to Matty Dalrymple and Jane Kelly—my favorite Plot First Responders! You two are a gift. Thank you to my grandmothers: Helen Conlen and Marilyn House; my parents: William Regan, Donna House, Joyce Regan, Rusty House and Julie House; my brothers and sisters-in-law: Sean and Cassie House, Kevin and Christine Brock and Andy Brock; as well as my lovely sisters: Ava McKittrick and Melissia McKittrick. Thank you as well to all of the usual suspects for your spreading the word—Debbie Tralies, Jean and Dennis Regan, Tracy Dauphin, Claire Pacell, Jeanne Cassidy, Susan Sole, the Regans, the Conlens, the Houses, the McDowells, the Kays, the Funks, the Bowmans, and the Bottingers! I’d also like to thank all the amazing bloggers and reviewers who read the first ten Josie Quinn books or who have picked up the series somewhere in the middle. I really appreciate your kindness!
Thank you so very much to Sgt. Jason Jay for answering so many of my questions at every hour of the day or night. Thank you to Lee Lofland for helping me work out some procedural issues. Thank you to Ken Fritz for helping me with my shooting scenario. Thank you to Marcie Riebe and Erin O’Brien Garcia for your help with all things related to social workers.
Thank you to Jenny Geras, Kathryn Taussig, Noelle Holten, Kim Nash, and the entire team at Bookouture, including my lovely copy editor and proofreader, for making this endeavor so smooth, so exciting and so damn much fun. Finally, thank you so much to one of my favorite people in the whole world, Jessie Botterill for always helping me work out every little thing and for virtually holding my hand during this very difficult chapter in poor Josie’s life. I say it all the time but it’s still true: I could not ever write a book without you now, and I would never want to! You are the most lovely, incredible, smart and savvy editor and I am so blessed to be doing this with you!
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