Thrill Kill
A Matt Sinclair Mystery
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- £9.49
Publisher Description
A nuanced police procedural written by a veteran of the Oakland Police Department and the Iraq war whose years of hard-earned experience and insider’s knowledge come through on the page
Cops in Oakland seldom meet people whose lives are going well. That's certainly the case when homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner, Cathy Braddock, soon learn, many of Dawn's clients, not to mention the local and federal officials who protect them, will go to any length to keep the police from digging too deep into her past.
Then the killer goes public, and Sinclair and Braddock must race to uncover the secrets Dawn was killed to protect before the killer unleashes a major attack on a scale the city has never seen before.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Thiem's hard-hitting sequel to 2015's Red Line, Det. Sgt. Matt Sinclair of the Oakland, Calif., PD and his police partner, Cathy Braddock, arrive at a crime scene in a park. Hanging by the neck from an oak tree is a dead naked woman. Sinclair recognizes the victim as Dawn Gustafson, a Midwest runaway turned prostitute whom he tried to help years earlier. Sinclair, who once did a harrowing stint in Iraq as part an Army CID detachment, manages to maintain his hard-won sobriety and overcome his terrifying nightmares as he plunges into a morass of political and big-business corruption in his search for Dawn's killer. Thiem, a former Oakland police detective and retired U.S. Army officer, offers insights into the prices paid by those sworn to protect and defend an increasingly obstructive and even hostile citizenry. His portrayal of a decent man's efforts to uphold civilization in a decaying urban jungle rings all too disturbingly true.
