Reckoning

SHE KILLED A MAN.HE DESERVED IT.BUT JUSTICE ISNT YET DONE.First in an explosive new thriller series set in the eighties from the author of the critically acclaimed Miranda Corbie series introduces the fierce feminist Renata Drakeon the run from the FBI for the execution-style murder of her little sisters killer.Vivid and haunting. Im eager to hear more from the tenacious and resourceful Renata Drake Meg Gardiner, #1New York Timesbestselling authorCalifornia, Southern Humboldt County, 1985.Renata Drake steps off a Greyhound bus and into small-town Garberville, hoping to disappear. She checks the papers. Shes not headline news. Not yet.But shes made a mistake. The FBI have the cannabis-producing Emerald Triangle town and its corrupt residentsin their sights. Even worse, a teenage girl is missing, and when she turns up dead, the third in three years, its clear a serial killer is living among them.Renata knows about murdered girls and the burning desire for justiceand for revenge. Her younger sister Josie is gone, and now, so is the man who killed her. Renata didnt stay in Washington, D.C. to be arrested for executing a murderer, and she shouldnt stay here either. But Renata decides to investigate, and what she uncovers will trigger a final reckoning: For herself, for a killer, and for all of Southern Humboldt.This powerful, page-turning thriller explores the human cost of corruption and the psychological toll that violence takes on women.