Renata Drake

SHE KILLED A MAN. HE DESERVED IT. BUT JUSTICE ISN'T YET DONE. First in an explosive series set in the eighties from the author of the Miranda Corbie series introduces Renata Drake-on the run from the FBI for the execution-style murder of her little sister's killer. California, Southern Humboldt County, 1985. Renata Drake steps off a Greyhound bus and into small-town Garberville, hoping to disappear. She checks the papers. She's not headline news. Not yet. But she's made a mistake. The FBI have the cannabis-producing "Emerald Triangle" town- and its corrupt residents-in their sights. Even worse, a teenage girl is missing, and when she turns up dead, the third in three years, it's clear a serial killer is living among them. Renata knows about murdered girls and the burning desire for justice-and for revenge. Her younger sister Josie is gone, and now, so is the man who killed her. Renata didn't stay in Washington, D.C. to be arrested for executing a murderer, and she shouldn't stay here either. But Renata decides to investigate, and what she uncovers will trigger a final reckoning. This thriller explores the human cost of corruption and the psychological toll that violence takes on women.