Some secrets don’t stay buried.Three elaborately staged victims. No clues. A public verging on panic.FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Kansas City to hunt another serial killer. But something about this case is all wrong.The three corpses lie posed. Face up. A glove laid to cover each right eye.The victims seem to be selected at random. Suburban. Upper middle class. Squeaky clean. It doesn’t … Suburban. Upper middle class. Squeaky clean. It doesn’t make sense.
A piece is missing from this puzzle.
If Loshak can find the missing link that connects the victims, he believes he can solve the case. The obstacles are many, however.
And the cryptic note someone left under his windshield wiper? It warns him that danger lurks all around.
They bury it, and they bury it, but it won’t stay dead.
As Loshak digs deeper, uneasiness seems to creep over everything in the city. Paranoia. A sense of dread.
Everyone he encounters seems to be keeping things from him. Concealing something.
He gets a visceral sense of the lengths people will go to hide their sins. Bury them.
When the suburban veneer finally strips away, all the dark secrets come clear one by one.
But nothing can prepare Loshak for the shocking revelation this case unearths.
Because what lies beneath the surface? It changes everything.
This pulse-pounding thriller will have you holding your breath until the final page. Fans of James Patterson, John Sandford, and Lisa Regan should check out the Victor Loshak series.
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Kept me riveted
A macabre look into child sex trafficking and its’ underground.
all in all this was an enjoyable read…not one that i couldn’t put down, but still good enough to finish and consider getting book 2 in the series
good book with to me a surprise ending!
390 pages
4 stars
This is my first Victor Loshak novel. It is a pretty good book.
Someone is killing rich men. There seems to be no connection between the men. FBI profiler Victor Loshak and his temporary reporter sidekick, Jevon Spinks, who is following him around to write Victor’s biography. They head to the Kansas City area to assist the local police in their investigation.
Before long, Loshak begins to receive cryptic notes on his car and in his hotel room. The theme is “don’t trust the locals.”
This is the story of the investigation, which is intensive. They begin to make connections, with the aid of a local man and it blows the top right off the cases. The case turns out to be much bigger than a serial killer murdering random men.
This book is well written and plotted and has plenty of action and tension. I liked the Loshak characters and kept urging him in my mind to just go to the doctor about his eye. I liked Spinks too. He has grit and plenty to say about everything.
All in all, a very good book. I will read more about Victor Loshak.
Love Victor Loshak~!~ Always keeps you ‘guessing’.
Loshak a FBI profiler and Spink a consultant also writing a book about Lashak they make a good team. The victims are posed, most been executed style killings, of wealth means. The secrets are hiding, the pieces of the puzzle he is putting in place, he still is surprised at what they were hiding. Good flowing plot and series to enjoy, well done.
Great writing.
Well Victor Loshak went from one extreme in Beyond Good & Evil Book 1 to another extreme in What Lies Beneath Book 2. If you read Book 1 you will know what I’m talking about. I found myself rooting for Victor in this book, I think he is missing Violet Darger. This book had 5 stars going into the last 3 or 4 chapters and lost a star at the end. I found the ending a little anticlimatic. I miss Victor and Violet’s banter and the excitement that Violet brings to a story. I’m glad Victor did what he did, but I’m torn about him making himself judge and jury. L.T., Tim and E.M. roped me into the story in the prologue and kept me guess what was going to happen next. The suspense was there, I did figure out little bits of the story, but missed the bigger problem going on. There were a couple of secondary characters that I wanted to be bad guys and involved in what was going on. In the end I felt bad for the killer and wanted him to be okay. I know L.T., Tim and E.M. have decided to take Victor and Violet in different directions, I hope they bring them back together. In my opinion this book is worth reading and is a good second book in the series. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced reader’s copy.