• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 October #2
  Death seems to pursue Shana Merchant. Currently suspended from her job as a senior investigator at the New York Bureau of Investigation after solving a traumatic case in which four people were murdered, she's in therapy, awaiting a psych evaluation and feeling a deep connection to serial killer Blake Bram, who held her hostage for eight days and has not been found. Then the bones discovered in her Vermont hometown turn out to be those of her uncle, Brett Skilton, thought to have left his family decades earlier but who was actually killed then. When a nine-year-old boy goes missing, Merchant suspects Blake of the kidnapping, as he tracks her and leaves messages pressuring her to solve Skilton's murder. But when she realizes just who her nemesis is, she's in a quandary about whether to reveal her suspicions, even to colleague Tim Wellington, who soon comes up with Blake's identity on his own. While some crimes are solved by the intuitive Merchant, a major problem is left hanging. In this diverting sequel to Death in the Family (2020), the game is still on. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

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