Author: isabellamaldonado

“Heart-pounding… Checks all the boxes for a top-notch thriller” (Jeffery Deaver): Years after escaping a serial killer’s clutches, FBI special agent Nina Guerrera is caught in a dangerous game with the same enigmatic monster — whose deadly deeds are now going viral…

Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First Novel Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz is dead set on taking down the Villalobos crime family, but the ruthlessness of her quarry demands a ruthless edge of her own.No one in the department suspects the real motivation behind the obsession that pits her against Bartolo Villalobos, heir apparent to a powerful criminal empire…until an operation goes … criminal empire…until an operation goes horribly wrong. Targeted by an increasingly unstable foe, Veranda must protect her family and navigate adversaries within the force while she sets a trap for Bartolo. As the action heats up,…