Under Cover of Darkness » (Abridged)

As the old cliché goes, write what you know. Former lawyer James Grippando has certainly taken this bit of wisdom to heart with his mega-successful courtroom thrillers, many of them starring Miami defense attorney Jack Swyteck. Time and again, this bestselling author has proven that he not only knows the law but he knows how to conjure an expertly paced tale of suspense.

From the bestselling author of The Abduction and Found Money comes another pulse-pounding thriller.

Gus Wheatley thinks he's found success. Money, power, prestige - they all come with the territory for the youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm. Nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top - until his wife vanishes.

Beth dropped off their six-year-old daughter at the youth center one afternoon, and no one has seen her since. Her disappearance comes just as FBI profilers are called in to examine a bizarre emerging pattern of brutal serial murders that rocks Seattle. The FBI dubs them "bookend killings," as the killer seems to be striking his victims in pairs: first two men, then two women. The victims are unrelated, yet within each pairing, one mirrors the other in chilling detail.

But this is just the beginning of the nightmare for Gus. Soon Seattle police fashion a theory that leaves two horrifying...

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A real gripper from the eerie opening to thecatastrophic denouement.