The Reckoning - Kelli Stanley

nSHE KILLED A MAN. nHE DESERVED IT. nBUT JUSTICE ISN'T YET DONE. n nFirst in an explosive new thriller series set in the eighties from the author of the critically acclaimed Miranda Corbie series introduces the fierce feminist Renata Drake--on the run from the FBI for the execution-style murder of her little sister's killer. n nVivid and haunting. I'm eager to hear more from the tenacious and resourceful Renata Drake Meg Gardiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author n nSouthern Humboldt County, 1985. Renata Drake steps off a Greyhound bus and into small-town Garberville, hoping to disappear. She checks the papers. She's not headline news. Not yet. n nBut she's made a mistake. The FBI have the cannabis-producing Californian town--and its corrupt residents--in their sights. Even worse, a teenage girl is missing, and when she turns up dead, the third in three years, it's clear a serial killer is living among them. n nRenata knows about murdered girls and the burning desire for justice--and for revenge. Her younger sister Josie is dead. And now, so is the man who killed her. Renata didn't stay behind to be arrested for executing a murderer. She shouldn't stay here either. But Renata decides to investigate, and what she uncovers will trigger a final reckoning: For herself, for a killer, and for all of southern Humboldt. n nThis powerful, page-turning thriller explores the human cost of corruption and the psychological toll that violence takes on women.n