New York: Mysterious Press, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller by this Edgar award winning author, a satisfying story of revenge. Two years before this opens, twelve conspirators organized a break from the federal prison near a small Colorado town, and threw open all the gates to the prison so more than a thousand convicts escaped and pour into the town, where they raped, murdered, and destroyed the town, burning down homes and businesses. While most were easily re-captured, the twelve organizers escaped and after two years, the FBI manhunt is dying down - and so Leah Hawkins, a six-foot, two-inch former star basketball player and city cop, is placed on sabbatical -one which hides her real job of tracking down these killers. And to kill them. A search which takes her from Florida to upstate New York, to the small town of Susanville in Northern California and to the Ozarks in Arkansas. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0802148063.