Publisher Description
The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction. The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and his occasional colleague FBI special agent Carla Windermere witness the assassination of one of the state’s wealthiest men. The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable—except in his eyes. There is something very wrong in his eyes. And it’s only the beginning. The events of that sunny springtime day will lead Stevens and Windermere across the country, down countless blind alleys, and finally to a very flourishing twenty-first-century enterprise: a high-tech murder-for-hire social media website. But just who has the dead-eyed shooter targeted next . . . and who’s choosing his victims? That’s where things get complicated.
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“Someone is selling murder on the
Internet, and FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota State
Investigator Kirk Stevens must stop him. Narrator Edoardo Ballerini rises to
the challenge of portraying a varied cast of characters, starting with
Windermere, Stevens, and a series of mentally unstable killers. Additional
characters include Stevens’s wife, a killer’s girlfriend, and sundry cops and
FBI agents. Whether Southern or Midwestern, white or African-American, male or
female, Ballerini nails each character and captures the urgency of the manhunt.
When he portrays the terrifying visions of assassin Malcolm Lind, Ballerini’s
voice becomes smoother to reflect the nightmare world of the killer’s mind.
This book is bolstered by Ballerini’s outstanding performance.”
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About Owen Laukkanen
Owen Laukkanen’s
2012 debut, The Professionals, earned
rave reviews from critics and readers alike. The story of four recent
university graduates who turn to kidnapping in a failing job market was hailed by Mystery Scene Magazine as one of the
year’s best debuts, while Kirkus Reviews
named it one of the top 100 novels of the year. A graduate of the University of
British Columbia’s creative writing program, Laukkanen spent three years in the
world of professional poker reporting after answering a Craigslist ad before turning to fiction. He currently
lives in Vancouver, where he’s hard at work on the third and fourth
installments in the Stevens and Windermere series.
About Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini, an American actor, director, film producer, and multiaward–winning narrator. He has won several Audie Awards for best narration, including for 2019’s Best Male Narrator of the Year. He was named by Booklist as winner of their 2023 Voice of Choice Award, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, from classics to modern masters, from bestsellers to the inspirational, from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners to spine-tingling series, and much more. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in A Murder at the End of the World, The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. He is also trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.