The deepest kill / Lisa Black.

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Title:

Author:

Black, Lisa, 1963- author.

ISBN:

9781496749659

Edition:

First Kensington hardcover edition.

Physical Description:

314 pages ; 22 cm

Series:

A Locard Institute thriller ; [3]

Locard Institute thriller ; #3.

General Note:

Series information from kensingtonbooks.com.

Includes bibliographical references.

Abstract:

When the pregnant daughter of software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, is murdered, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies, called in to investigate, are drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic to determine who--and what--is at the heart of the crime.

Subject Term:

Women forensic scientists -- Fiction.

Pregnant women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Boating accidents -- Fiction.

Femmes spécialistes de la criminalistique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Femmes enceintes -- Crimes contre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Meurtre -- Enquêtes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Navigation de plaisance -- Accidents et blessures -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Geographic Term:

Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.

Florida -- Fiction.

Floride -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

Genre:

Suspense fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction.)

Novels.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Romans.

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Summary

With a duo of complex female protagonists, breakneck plotting, and authenticity informed by her career as a crime scene analyst, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black's Locard Institute Thrillers land her in the same league as Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell, and Kathy Reichs.

Now forensic experts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies are called to a billionaire's private compound on Florida's Gulf Coast to investigate a tragic death amid a dangerous storm of power, deception, and conspiracy...

For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man's-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side.

Martin's pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore. Although the local coroner determined her death was an accident, Ellie and Rachael soon confirm Martin's gravest fear- His daughter was murdered. Was it a kidnapping gone wrong? Or something even more brutal? Ashley and her husband, Greg, had been working with Martin on a revolutionary new defense initiative for the US military - could espionage have played a part in her death? Martin believes Greg is behind the murder, and the spoiled charmer does set off Rachel's deception radar. If the widower didn't kill Ashley himself, why isn't he more upset that she's dead?

Drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic, Ellie and Rachael must work hard and fast to discover what secrets are buried at the heart of the crime. Because the churning waters of the Gulf are getting rougher. And soon, Ellie and Rachael themselves will be in danger of getting crushed in their depths.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Forensic investigators Ellie Carr and Rachel Davies head to the Sunshine State for their third case (after What Harms You) in this lumpy thriller from bestseller Black. Reclusive tech guru Martin Post, the third-richest man in the U.S., summons Ellie and Rachel from Washington, D.C., to his Florida compound for a job. Two weeks earlier, Post's pregnant daughter, Ashley, died in what appeared to be a boating accident. Post, however, suspects foul play, so he employs Ellie and Rachel to perform a second autopsy. The results indicate that intentional force may have killed Ashley, opening the gate for a flood of potential suspects: Could her husband, Greg, have done it? A rival tech company who's competing with her father for a lucrative defense contract? A foreign government intent on stealing Post's cutting-edge software for themselves? As suspicions proliferate, more bodies pile up, and Ellie and Rachel must find answers before they're next on the chopping block. Black, a Floridian forensic scientist, infuses the narrative with scalpel-sharp regional and technical detail. Unfortunately, she's shakier when it comes to the plot, delivering a herky-jerky investigation and rushed finale. This is best suited to devoted series fans. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. (Mar.)

Kirkus Review

A pair of forensic scientists helps a tech titan investigate his daughter's death. Although their history as colleagues at the Locard Institute has been relatively brief, Dr. Ellie Carr and Dr. Rachael Davies have formed a bond that's uncommonly close professionally while remaining more distant personally. That's about to change. Martin Post, the genius behind OakTree software design, summons them to the Gulf Coast to help determine whether his four-months-pregnant daughter, Ashley, died in an accidental drowning or was the victim of something more sinister. When they arrive at his Florida home, a palatial compound befitting the third-richest man in the United States, the investigators find a living situation that would try the most robust family ties. Ashley and her husband, Greg Anderson, lived entirely under Martin's domineering thumb. Solo excursions on her boat, Phantom, were Ashley's main source of release. Local police believe that, perhaps due to a pregnancy-related loss of balance, she was swept off the Phantom and drowned. But when Rachael's careful inspection of Ashley's body, recovered from the Gulf days after her disappearance, reveals a tiny nick in her spine, she and Ellie realize that they're looking at a murder. Meticulous Rachael and intuitive Ellie must answer a daunting number of questions about how Ashley came to be killed so many miles from land. The two investigators end up strengthening their personal connection as memories from Ellie's past, including details of her own mother's drowning, inflect their inquiry. Nothing about this case makes sense until it does. Cheers for Black's knotty puzzle and the two canny women who unravel it. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.