Redemption
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3.9 • 103 Ratings
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
Redemption is the latest memory man thriller in David Baldacci’s Sunday Times bestselling series.
FBI consultant Amos Decker discovers that he may have made a fatal mistake when he was a rookie homicide detective. Back in his home town, he’s now compelled to discover the truth . . .
Decker has returned to Burlington, Ohio, for a special reason. It would have been his daughter Molly’s fourteenth birthday. Molly was brutally murdered four years ago in their home, along with his beloved wife, Cassie, and his brother-in-law.
But then Decker is tracked down by a man he’ll never forget: Meryl Hawkins, his first homicide arrest more than twelve years ago. Hawkins has been in prison serving a life sentence but was recently released due to a terminal illness.
Decker now finds himself questioning what had seemed watertight evidence at the time – maybe he’d been a bit too keen to get that conviction? Could Hawkins really be innocent, as he’s always claimed?
If so, the killer is still out there – with a possible connection to a new crime. As the body count rises, and Decker and his former partner Mary Lancaster dig deeper, it looks as though there’s a lot more to what they thought was a closed case.
Customer Reviews
Good as always except for the narration
Not sure why the narrator decided to do a different voice for the lead character in this book compared to all the previous. I felt the old voice suited the character far more. If there’s another book to follow, I hope he will go back to the original, less dramatically over the top voice.
*Hunting for the Truth*
This should have been a short visit for Amos Decker to Burlington, Ohio where he was visiting his daughter’s grave on her birthday. At the same time he is confronted by Meryl Hawkins who was his first homicide arrest is now pleading his innocence after serving a life sentence and being let out early due to his terminal cancer diagnosis. Decker and Lancaster helped to put him there.
It was Decker’s first case along with his former partner Mary Lancaster as Detectives. On this visit his current partner in crime ex journalist Alex Jamison who turned from being a Consultant to a fully fledged FBI agent.
Alex Jamison & Decker need to fly back but the case is drawing Decker in. Once Decker has a inexplicable problem he is not budging until he solves the case.
This case is multilayered and as soon as Decker is getting close to the truth the people he is questioning to are being killed and his life and those around him are being are also in danger.
It is a nice return for Melvin Mars who Decker and his team cleared as Mars was hours from the death penalty, sadly he lost 20 years of his life by being incorrectly incarcerated. Decker & Mars became firm friends.
This case is not just about getting to the truth, what Amos discovers is a operation that places people into low paying jobs especially for the rich and famous. This is for these people to listen out for anything that can help to uncover dark secrets to make this group more powerful. This operation has a nationwide reach and is a serious threat to National Security, people are being placed in all avenues including the Burlington police force, what is their agenda? can they outfox Amos and his team …..
Absolutely thrilling ….