Every Kind of Wicked
  • Published: 25 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9781496722386
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $49.99
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Every Kind of Wicked

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In the sixth Gardiner and Renner thriller by forensic scientist and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black, Maggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and her unlikely partner, a vigilante homicide cop who stalks the living, take a deep dive into the seedy world of fraud--from medical fraud to money laundering to phone scammers and more.

In this mesmerizing new novel from bestselling author Lisa Black, the discovery of a young man’s corpse leads forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner into a dark and dangerous web of lies . . .
 
Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Renner’s orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victim’s wallet leads to the local university’s student housing—and to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda.
 
Maggie’s struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, who’s convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on Cleveland’s West Side; but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth.
 
Rick’s case and Jack’s merge onto the trail of a shadowy, pill-pushing physician who is everywhere and nowhere at once, while Maggie and Jack uncover a massive financial shakedown hiding in plain sight. And when Rick’s bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, Maggie’s world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events . . .
  • Published: 25 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9781496722386
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

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Praise for Every Kind of Wicked

Praise for the Gardiner & Renner Novels by Lisa Black

"Let Justice Descend is the definition of psychological suspense! Superbly drawn characters, nonstop plotting...this is a one-sitting read!" --Jeffery Deaver, internationally bestselling author of The Bone Collector

"A well-crafted thriller. Black keeps the suspense high throughout."
--Publishers Weekly on Suffer the Children

"The plot hurtles to an adrenaline-fueled conclusion that is sure to hook Black's devoted readership."
--Booklist on Perish

"This latest Gardiner and Renner mystery builds on the personal relationships among the leads while effectively exposing the underbelly of politics on the local and national levels. A high energy narrative with a final twist that will leave readers wanting more." --Booklist on Let Justice Descend

"An intriguing tale of skullduggery." --Publishers Weekly on Let Justice Descend

"As always with Black, this psychological suspense is incredible." --Suspense Magazine on Suffer the Children

"With its solid grounding of information about child development, this fourth entry in the Gardiner and Renner series is instructional as well as being a well-plotted and -paced thriller with a pair of intriguing protagonists." --Booklist on Suffer the Children

"These thrillers are so reliably macabre, so brimming with fascinating forensic detail, and so well-crafted. This one begins with a
bang and never lets up." --Florida Weekly on Perish

"A great choice for readers of psychological suspense, forensic investigations, and mystery." --Library Journal on That Darkness

"A work of fascinating psychological depth." --Florida Weekly on That Darkness

"Lisa Black always delivers authentic characters in riveting stories. That Darkness takes things to a spellbinding new level with a taut and haunting story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it." --Jeff Lindsay, creator of Dexter on That Darkness

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