T.J. MacGregor's The Hanged Man was praised as a "mesmerizing thriller" (Booklist), and as "a dark, suspenseful page-turner" (Nora Roberts, author of Sanctuary). Now this Shamus Award nominee returns with a new novel that blends psychological suspense with a riveting duel between a man driven over the edge and the FBI agent whose family he killed.Frank Benedict, a high-powered attorney with a Miami firm, is driving home in a storm from what should have been the biggest night of his career. Instead, the client he's been wooing for months won't commit, threatening to blow his pending partnership. Now, fueled by alcohol and rage, Benedict slams his BMW -- twice -- into an Explorer. When the passenger door flies open and a pregnant woman stumbles out and collapses, Benedict flees the scene. At home, he methodically begins to cover his tracks. He tells his wife it was a hit and run accident, and convinces her to keep silent. But when Benedict's lies and deceptions begin unraveling, he's slowly driven to terrible extremes by his own desperation and fear.
For FBI veteran Charlie Calloway, the search for the man who killed her husband and unborn child becomes a race against time. She teams up with former agent Doug Logan, a man whose near-death experience left him with extraordinary psychic powers. Together, Charlie and Doug hunt through a maze of evidence that defies logical explanation and leads them into the most frightening place of all...the shadows of the human mind.
