HangmanTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Brilliant! Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author Two well chewed thumbs up. Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author An addictive debut thriller starring an FBI consultant with a peculiar taste for crime and punishment A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. Its only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake,

snap to it

the sensationalist tabloid newspaper that employed Ishmael as a copy editor while he wrote the harrowing story of the ill-fated Pequod

will their hard-forged bond prevail or shatter

and you’ve got hilarious crime fiction black comedy that anyone would be thrilled to discover stuffed in their Christmas stocking

we fear that when we hit midlife

and in this highly personal and revealing account

The four friends wait to be strip-searched by the border police

With her sweet smile and her easy way with Janey

building to a shattering finale

is a good-surprise day

if you’re lucky

using her skills and savvy to track down each of the names on the list and uncover their connection