The Reckoning

<p><b>SHE KILLED A MAN.</b><br><b>HE DESERVED IT.</b><br><b>BUT JUSTICE ISN'T YET DONE.</b><br><br><b><i>First in an explosive new thriller series set in the eighties from the author of the critically acclaimed Miranda Corbie series introduces the fierce feminist Renata Drake-on the run from the FBI for the execution-style murder of her little sister's killer.</i></b><br><br><b>"</b><b>Vivid and haunting. I'm eager to hear more from the tenacious and resourceful Renata Drake" Meg Gardiner, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b><br><br><i>Southern Humboldt County, 1985</i>. 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.<br><br>But she's made a mistake. The FBI have the cannabis-producing Californian 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.<br><br>Renata knows about murdered girls and the burning desire for justice-and for revenge. Her younger sister Josie is dead. And now, so is the man who killed her. Renata didn't stay behind to be arrested for executing a murderer. She shouldn't stay here either. But Renata decides to investigate, and what she uncovers will trigger a final reckonin For herself, for a killer, and for all of southern Humboldt. <br><br><b>This powerful, page-turning thriller explores the human cost of corruption and the psychological toll that violence takes on women.</b></p>