Codebreakers
A Wordhunter Mystery
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 11 ago 2026
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- USD 9.99
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- Pedido anticipado
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
“What a captivating book! Clever, smart, ingenious, and absolutely irresistible.” – Hank Phillippi Ryan
Maggie Moore and Detective Jackson, the genius sleuths introduced in the brain-teaser mystery Wordhunter, are back to solve another crime.
Steamy, seedy, swampy south-central Florida once again serves as the backdrop for the unlikely duo of loquacious, tattooed, trash-talking Maggie Moore and laconic Detective Silas Gabriel Jackson—linguistic genius and genius detective, respectively. Now operating their own agency and using their extraordinary skills in forensic semiotics (her), and good old-fashioned observation (him), the pair decode clues embedded in words and symbols to uncover a sadistic criminal who preys upon unsuspecting men.
The troubled and painful pasts of both Maggie and Jackson come into play as they try to track down bad guys and old friends, figure out how to trust—and whom to love. Once again, Stella Sands delivers a snappy, sharp-tongued and well observed story about life, love, and language.
“The most addictive crime/buddy/whodunnitnovel you’ll ever read.” – Jenna Blum
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sands's second outing for linguistic savant Maggie Moore and detective Silas Jackson (after Wordhunter) is a satisfying whodunit that, strikingly, contains no murder. Maggie and Jackson met when Jackson was working for the police department in Olemeda, Fla., and collaborated on a case that revealed his boss as a pedophile. They've since partnered as private investigators and get a gig uniquely suited to Maggie's expertise when a man who only identifies himself as Mitch walks through their door. After a drag ball, Mitch hooked up with a man named Flint, only to wake up naked in a motel room with a strange, unwanted tattoo on his butt. Maggie is uniquely qualified to identify the symbol, but she and Jackson are alarmed to discover that it was made by a branding iron rather than a tattoo machine. Further digging reveals that Flint appears to be a serial brander. Their investigation coincides with Maggie's search for her friend, Lucy, who she believes was captured by a religious cult. As in the previous installment, Sands has a blast plunging readers into Maggie's unique mind, employing sentence diagrams and linguistic puzzles in service of a shrewd mystery plot. This series has legs.
