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A SERIAL KILLER IS SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS... In the fourth installment of Kimberly Amato's chilling hard-boiled mystery series, badass detective Jasmine Steele is back - and shockingly, to herself most of all - she's as happy as she's ever been. She and her brilliant psychologist partner Frankie are planning a wedding that's been years in the making, and she's settled into a new chapter of life with her nephew-turned-adopted son, Chase. But the good life turns out to be more fleeting than the detective's caffeine withdrawals.Jasmine, or Jazz, to her friends, gets a rude awakening when a 3-year-old cold case comes back hot. New York City's "Carnation Killer," a serial rapist and murderer, leaves his fifth calling card on a woman named Emilia Smith. The calling card? A heart-shaped carving into the woman's chest and a single white carnation. On the creep spectrum, Jazz puts this killer somewhere between Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer. And her veteran right-hand man is on medical leave.She's joined instead by temporary partner Detective Sydney Locke, a welcome new character. Sydney's pretty green but has a fiery determination and talent for the beat that Jazz recognizes within minutes. Soon enough, they've got a mentor/prot g thing going - which certainly comes in handy at their often patriarchal workplace. And it turns out Jazz and Syd will need that and more when the military gets involved with the investigation- because the victim is none other than the daughter of a high-ranking official, and the brass knows more than they're saying. What the team do know is that Emilia's last night alive was spent at a college bar that sparks Jasmine' least happy memory -the very same establishment that served as a backdrop to her own early adult years, a past defiled and traumatized by a dangerous man. Just as Jazz is finally ready to be happy, her bone-chilling trauma comes rushing back. And the Carnation Killer is still out there.

SHE'S ALMOST FAMOUS-AND SOMEONE'S TARGET. EVEN HER COP BEST FRIEND CAN'T KEEP HER SAFE... "This time it's personal" is a phrase all too familiar to NYPD veteran detective Jasmine Steele. Trouble seems to find her and her family-a recurring nightmare serving as the traumatic driving force behind Kimberly Amato's pulse-pounding hard-boiled police procedural mystery series. In this nail-biting entry, Jasmine's nearest and dearest find themselves tangled in a web of terrifying cyberbullying, hair-raising stalking, sexual harassment, and murder-with Jazz stuck in the middle. Some may call Detective Jasmine Steele stubborn; others contrarian. At the very least she's old-fashioned. So she's looking forward to a few days of peace and quiet after finally tying the knot with her longtime better-half Frankie. Unfortunately, fate has other plans when the newlyweds' best friend, rising-star actress Hadley Moreno, turns up on their doorstep, hysterical. Seems a perp broke into her upscale apartment and ransacked the place-with a creepy dollop of reverence. In fact, the whole crime scene looks far too personal for comfort. What's more, it looks like the deed was done by a professional. And it was long-planned. But that's nothing compared to the discovery of Hadley's boyfriend Logan, who's found poisoned in his own home. Jasmine suspects both crimes are the work of an obsessed individual who has reached the point of violence, and she's worried he's more intelligent-and more dangerous-than the average stalker. With the help of her stellar NYPD team, Jazz heads up an investigation that quickly falls down the sordid rabbit hole of the darker, more twisted side of social media, all the while suspecting she might be too close to the case-and fearing for the safety of her loved ones. Because any time anyone in Jasmine's biological or chosen family is in danger, she runs headfirst into the abyss. It's what makes her such an ace detective-and what makes this psychologically-astute domestic thriller series so compelling. But it's also her greatest weakness. In fact, it's bound to get her killed. A treat for fans of hard-boiled police procedurals, lesbian protagonist mysteries, and hard-boiled women sleuths-like badass female leads written by Megan Abbott, Laura Lippmann, Lisa Lutz, and Vicki Hendricks. Domestic thriller fans of Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will adore Jazz in this page-turner.

Poisonous internet trolls. No break in the chase for killers. Is it still worth putting her life on the line for the haters? NYC. Jasmine "Jazz" Steele wants to see the good in others. Happily raising her nephew with help from her devoted wife, the relentless detective sacrificed herself for her city throughout the devastation of the pandemic. And despite working to the bone as the homicides pile up, she's shattered when an anonymous online attack claims she's fallen fatally short in her duties. Shocked as the invisible critic posts cruelly edited photos and videos of her and her partner, Jazz hunts for cases that slipped through the cracks during the lockdown. But the more she pours herself into the job, the faster her home life goes from rose-colored to rocky. Can this cop survive the threats to her career and her loved ones before she's pushed over the brink?