Every Kind of Wicked (A Gardiner and Renner Novel #6)

By: Lisa Black

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Synopsis: In this mesmerizing new novel from bestselling author Lisa Black, the discovery of a young man&’s corpse leads forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner into a dark and dangerous web of lies . . . Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Renner&’s orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victim&’s wallet leads to the local university&’s student housing—and to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda. Maggie&’s struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, who&’s convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on Cleveland&’s West Side; but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth. Rick&’s case and Jack&’s merge onto the trail of a shadowy, pill-pushing physician who is everywhere and nowhere at once, while Maggie and Jack uncover a massive financial shakedown hiding in plain sight. And when Rick&’s bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, Maggie&’s world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events . . .