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Title details for Every Kind of Wicked by Lisa Black - Available

Every Kind of Wicked

#6 in series

by Lisa Black
Kirsten Potter
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Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Renner's orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victim's wallet leads to the local university's student housing—and to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda. Maggie's struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, who's convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on Cleveland's West Side, but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth. Rick's case and Jack's merge on the trail of a shadowy, pill-pushing physician, who is everywhere and nowhere at once, while Maggie and Jack uncover a massive financial shakedown hiding in plain sight. And when Rick's bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, Maggie's world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Gardiner and Renner

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 25, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666555592
      • File size: 267086 KB
      • Duration: 09:16:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 22, 2020
      Bestseller Black’s so-so sixth thriller featuring Cleveland PD forensic expert Maggie Gardiner and homicide detective Jack Renner (after 2019’s Let Justice Descend) deepens the connection between her two leads. Maggie is aware of Jack’s many secrets, including his carrying out of vigilante executions of criminals, both in Cleveland and in other cities where he’s worked as a cop under different names. To add to the complex relationship, Maggie’s life has “not been the same” since she made a “violent decision,” which only Jack knows about. Against this fraught background, Maggie assists Jack in solving the murder of Evan Harding, whose stabbed corpse was found in a cemetery with a key taped to his leg. Evan’s girlfriend becomes a person of interest after the investigators learn she lied to them about Evan’s employment. Two more murders complicate the inquiry, and Black tosses in a gratuitous child-in-peril scene. Awkward prose (“her fury would make Genghis Khan look like Strawberry Shortcake”) can distract. Fans already emotionally invested in the characters will best appreciate this one. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With a voice like a film noir femme fatale, narrator Kirsten Potter takes listeners through the frequent twists and turns of forensic expert Maggie Gardiner's latest murder case. Her investigative partner, Jack, is also a serial killer who views it as his mission to bring justice to those who have escaped it through other means. Now Maggie has to solve a case to protect Jack from suspicion. Potter's wry narration captures the characters perfectly, giving listeners the sense that they are helping to identify the killer, even as leads go cold. Potter easily moves between Maggie's professionalism and her fears; she also makes Jack recognizable as a sociopath--however well intended. This is an audiobook listeners won't want to pause, even for a minute. V.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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