A Nasty Shade of Death

The unsolved murder of a reclusive Brooklyn woman whose badly beaten body was discovered in a windswept corner of Prospect Park…. A killer whose unique affliction calls up a blinding, crimson rage impossible to control….

Enter a Manhattan surgeon named Damon Fox, who walked away from medicine in his prime for the very different life of private detecting in South Florida, leaving a hospital's worth of baffled former colleagues in his wake. One of them is the dead woman's sister, who is unwilling to live with the open wound of losing her sibling in this way. And she believes that the methodical and analytic approach that made Fox great in his former role could make him the perfect person to unearth the killer that even experienced homicide detectives have failed to find.

Fox’s first breakthrough comes when he discovers that the killer has struck before, again and again over the years in cities across the United States. Knowing there is a string of similar cases allows him to enlist the aid of the detectives in several cities who have worked, and failed to solve, their own isolated cases. Among them is a beautiful Miami PD sleuth named Diana Suarez with who Fox’s relationship grows much deeper than merely working together to close a local cold case. But it is Fox’s own affliction, this one a potential danger only to himself, that enables him to develop the very unusual profile of the perpetrator. And Fox understands that the man's heinous acts will never end unless he is caught and that it will be up to Fox to figure out how to catch him.

From the Kirkus Award winning author of the Carina Quintana series of police procedurals now comes a hard-boiled whodunit featuring Damon Fox, a singular detective whose fledgling second career depends on unraveling a series of unexpected twists and turns, snaring a seemingly undetectable killer and bringing him to long-delayed justice.