Jodi Compton widmet sich den dunkleren Seiten der menschlichen Natur und den moralischen Zwickmühlen, mit denen ihre Charaktere konfrontiert sind. Ihr Stil ist spannend und reich an psychologischer Spannung, was die Leser in komplexe Ermittlungen und Beziehungen hineinzieht. Durch ihre Werke erforscht sie das Wesen der Gerechtigkeit und die unscharfen Grenzen zwischen richtig und falsch. Compton baut meisterhaft Atmosphäre auf und schafft unvergessliche Figuren, die auch nach der letzten Seite nachklingen.
Detective Sarah Pribek, Expertin für vermisste Personen, sucht verzweifelt nach ihrem verschwundenen Mann Shiloh. Während ihrer Suche entdeckt sie zunehmend Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit, die den Fall komplizierter machen. Jodi Compton wird für ihr fesselndes Debüt gelobt, das tief in die Psyche der Leser eindringt.
Sarah Pribek ist Polizistin, ihr Spezialgebiet ist das Aufspüren vermisster Personen. Plötzlich wird alles sehr persönlich, als ihr Ehemann spurlos verschwindet.
Detective Sarah Pribek hat in der Welt des Verbrechens alle Schattenseiten kennengelernt. Sie ist eine selbstständige Frau, fürchtet sich aber vor dem Alleinsein. Doch als Undercover-Ermittlerin wird Stärke von ihr erwartet. Und Gesetzestreue. Als ein ehrgeiziger Staatsanwalt sie des Mordes anklagt, weiß sie, dass sie auf sich allein gestellt ist – und ihre Ängste bezwingen muss.
Detective Sarah Pribek has seen what happens when a cop goes rogue in pursuit of justice: Her husband Shiloh is in a Wisconsin prison, serving the last of his sentence. Since his conviction, Sarah's own choices have earned her a reputation on the force as an erratic maverick. Now, just as she's finally getting back on her feet, mentoring a rookie and anticipating Shiloh's upcoming release, Sarah is pleased to be appointed to a task force investigating the kidnapping and murder of a University of Minnesota student. The case is a "redball," a high-profile investigation closely watched by the brass, the media and the public. During a round of routine interviews, Sarah questions a young man who leaves her chilled to her nerve endings. A background investigation quickly turns up evidence that further implicates him, and she is certain she's found their killer. Then, disaster. A voluntary blood test exonerates the man. Sarah's reputation and her position on the task force are on the line. She's convinced that the results are wrong. Yet how could that be? She was there. She saw the blood drawn. But when another young woman dies, Sarah finds herself throwing out the rule book in hopes that she can stop a killer who now believes himself untouchable
On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-town criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now a zealous D.A.'s investigator has come to town, determined to make an arrest. With her ex-partner half a world away and her husband in prison, only Sarah remains to face the consequences of last fall. Surrounded by colleagues who know her to be the suspect in a murder, Sarah keeps her demons at bay by involving herself in the troubles of strangers. Seventeen-year-old Aidan Hennessy was banished from his family by his father. Now Aidan's twin sister is desperately searching for the brother she hasn't seen in years. Although the case is out of Sarah's jurisdiction, she sees a reflection of herself in the troubled, damaged family, and agrees to investigate. As she probes into their tangled history, Sarah begins to realize that the mystery of the Hennessys runs deeper than it appears. Caught up in a cat-and-mouse game with the investigator who wants to end her career, crossing one ethical line after another, Sarah increasingly fears that a misstep on her part will end not only in her disgrace, but in the death of one of those she has promised herself to protect.
The road to redemption can lead through the darkest places...
Sarah Pribek is a police officer in the Missing Persons department. She, of all people, knows that the first 36 hours in a missing persons case are the most crucial. When she learns that her husband Shiloh has failed to show up for FBI training in Quantico, Sarah commences a Missing Persons search for her own husband. But already it's the 37th hour. The search takes her to his family where she hears of a sister she never knew he had, to New Mexico, where (coincidentally?) she grew up, and finally back to her ex police partner, Genevieve, where all the threads of this brilliantly told novel come together.
