The brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from your #1 NY Times best-selling author.

‘Sandford’s background like a best-selling writer can be amazing, but it’s not an accident,’ wrote Booklist of Wicked Victim. ‘His plotting is normally sharpened, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his great guys are usually evolving.

And this period, there’s a storm brewing…Extremely early, 4:45, on a bitterly chilly Minnesota morning, 3 big men burst through the entranceway of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, ft, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place away. But then things swiftly go bad, among the employees dies, as well as the robbers hustle away to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond female in the garage area: Weather conditions Karkinnen, doctor, wife of an investigator called Lucas Davenport.

Did she see enough? Can she determine them? Gnawing it over later on, it seems to them there is one thing they can do: Find out who she actually is, and eliminate the only possible witness…