When they had arrived here, introductions had been made, hugs given, pleasantries exchanged, bags put away, and Jamison had given out housewarming gifts to her sister and niece, because Amber and her family had only recently moved here. The rain was falling hard now whipped by the wind into a stinging frenzy, as the storm emptied millions of gallons of water over the extreme western edge of the Keystone State. Again, someone was dead and, unlike the accidental death, the death was intentional, but it was not the same as murder, because you weren’t doing it for your own benefit. Also, the temperature had dropped some, and there was a low fog building that, along with the gathering clouds, obscured the sky even more. Summer was over, but the thunderstorms often accompanying the segue into fall appeared to be bearing down on them.

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He and Jamison were here on vacation from solving heinous crimes while working on a special task force at the FBI back in Washington. In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation—and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up.Electrical fires tended to move fast, usually behind walls where they could spread unseen until it was too late. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly-tuned antennae of agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, Alex Jamison. And now that I’ve read the latest book of this series and all the previous series as well, I can’t wait until I read the next David Baldacci book that comes out towards the end of this year: Long Road to Mercy, which is the first in a new thriller series featuring Atlee Pine, an FBI with his own demons to deal with. Now, this is why reading the previous books is so important because you’ll learn about his particular sharp senses and will understand what is going on much easier.

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Blowflies could smell dead flesh from miles away and were a policeman’s best friend, because with the biological death clock having commenced, the invasive insects would help determine the time of death. Amos Decker used two fingers to neck-cradle his third bottle of beer of the evening while he contemplated these questions. Twisty, (perhaps overly) multilayered plot aside I lapped-up this book and didn’t want it to finish. Last Updated on December 3, 2015 A Curious Beginning is the first book by Deanna Raybourn in the Veronica Speedwell historical crime mystery series.

I don’t know if he’s a cop or not, but the guy in the basement is wearing the same type of uniform you are. David Baldacci is a bestselling American author who has written numerous novels, including thrillers, mysteries, and young adult fiction. That is until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room—and that nothing is as it seems.