
EVIL HIDES IN PLAIN SLIGHT
AN INFAMOUS FBI AGENT. A BUTCHERED VALEDICTORIAN. A WAR HERO WITH NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE. BRONXVILLE, 2022.
“A masterful debut.” - The Crime Gazette
“Unforgettable.” - BookSirens
“★ ★ ★ ★ ★” - DarkShelf Reviews
“A triumph in pace, and utter nuclear bomb in resolution.” - Gideon Rowe, author of The Ice Hotel Murders
“★ ★ ★ ★ ★” - Crime Lit Monthly
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When 18-year-old Ivy League darling Evelyn Armstrong is found savagely murdered in the woods of Twin Lakes County Park, her blood stains the pristine streets of a community that buries its secrets deeper than its dead. Into this world of whispered suspicions steps James Prince - a brilliant FBI profiler whose gift for seeing into the minds of killers has been dulled by months of administrative limbo, divorce papers, and one too many nightcaps following custody proceedings. Stalled and sidelined by career stagnation, Prince leaps at the sensation without hesitance - a chance to prove his worth again as he stalks a predator who moves like a ghost through Bronxville's exclusive circles, leaving precision carnage in his wake. As Prince delves deeper into the case within the dreary walls of a crumbling lodge sat on the outskirts of the village, the killer begins leaving him personalized messages - cryptic taunts left at his door or carved into dead prostitutes that suggest an intimate knowledge of Prince's own fractured past, turning the investigation into a twisted game of psychological warfare.
Across town, behind the blank stare of grief and self-medication, ex-Navy SEAL Richard Armstrong silently weaponizes his combat-honed skills forged over a decorated, ultraviolent tenure overseas. As the unraveling father disappears into shadows cast by street lamps and old money, he becomes both hunter and phantom - a terrifying vigilante with nothing left to lose executing a ruthless vendetta from within the killer's hunting grounds like a rogue freight train.
Two damaged, relentless men. Two parallel hunts. And a force of evil so vile it will test the very limits of their sanity.
As the body count rises and a historic blizzard descends onto the town, Prince and Armstrong spiral toward an inevitable collision where only one truth awaits - and in this affluent enclave, redemption and damnation are merely two sides of the same blood-spattered coin.
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Take a walk with darkness below in Overtime author Jack Chase’s searing take on the American murder mystery.