Electric Noir

Electric Noir Synopsis

The ';suspense that never stops' in this thriller trilogy set in San Francisco by the Edgar Award and Hammett Prizenominated author (James Patterson).The Poison Artist After a fleeting encounter with a seductive woman, toxicologist Caleb Maddox becomes obsessed with finding her again. Meanwhile, he begins helping with a serial-murder investigation. Soon the search for the killer entwines with Caleb's hunt for the woman in ';a wicked mix of Poe, The Silence of the Lambs, and Vertigo' (William Landay).The Dark Room Homicide inspector Gavin Cain is called in for a highly sensitive case:

• the mayor is being blackmailed. A series of photographs show a beautiful woman shackled to a bed. And worse revelations are to come if the mayor doesn't take his own life first. This '
• electrifying noir thriller' tracks Cain as he enters a web of deceit and destruction (Booklist, starred review).The Night Market In this '
• sharp and scary near-future thriller,' Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene where a dead man is covered in an unknown substance eating through his skin. Suddenly, he's hauled into a trailer and shocked unconscious. When he wakes up days later, he's in his own bed, lying next to his neighbor Miaa woman he barely knows. And she knows a lot more than she's letting on (Publishers Weekly, starred review)