Original Sins
A Novel
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3.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In a brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor
It’s a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It’s a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for duty as an FBI agent on her first assignment.
Teamed with a man she’s not sure she can trust and struggling to prove herself—while fighting the pull of her old life and family dramas—Riley is tasked with investigating a vicious death threat against the newly elected female state governor. Gradually, she traces a disturbing connection between this case and the hunt for the Sin Eater. Through snow, ice, violence and lies, Riley Fisher is drawn towards a terrifying revelation.
Erin Young follows up her acclaimed crime debut, The Fields, which has drawn comparisons with Mare of Easttown, Silence of the Lambs, and True Detective, with another stunning thriller full of dark menace, surprise and suspense.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Young's terrifying second Riley Fisher novel (after The Fields) finds the former Des Moines, Iowa, police sergeant working as a freshly minted FBI agent when unsettling news breaks. In the 1990s, a Book of Genesis–quoting criminal dubbed the Sin Eater brutally assaulted at least 18 Iowa women before vanishing. Evidence from a series of recent assaults in the state suggests he's returned, and that his criminal ambitions are growing more violent. After the governor of Iowa receives an anonymous and virulently misogynistic letter decorated with the Sin Eater's signature serpent markings, the FBI and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations create a Sin Eater task force to which Riley is assigned. Pressured to succeed for the sake of both public safety and her fledgling career, Riley can't shake the feeling that one of her new colleagues on the task force has ulterior motives for signing up. As the investigation unfolds, Young transforms a seemingly rote procedural into a high-octane, ardently feminist thriller with surprising narrative layers and a nightmare-worthy villain. Karin Slaughter fans, take note.
