<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her, but to make her pay</b> <p/>In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. <p/>That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Peter Blauner is an Edgar-winning, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of seven other novels, including <i>Slow Motion Riot</i> and <i>The Intruder</i>. He has written for such TV shows as <i>Law & Order: SVU</i> and <i>Blue Bloods.</i> A former journalist and lifelong New Yorker, his most recent book, <i>Proving Ground</i>, was also published by Minotaur/St. Martin's Press.
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