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The Nightmare Thief, Jo Beckett (04) by Meg Gardiner MOBI



Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett returns in a fourth taut, groundbreaking thriller from Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner.



Autumn   Reiniger expects something  special for her twenty-first birthday.   Daddy's already bought her the  sports car, the apartment, and admission   to the private college where  she parties away her weekends. Now she   wants excitement, and she's going  to get it.



Her   father signs up Autumn and  five friends for an "ultimate urban   reality" game: a simulated drug  deal, manhunt, and jailbreak. It's a   high-priced version of cops and  robbers, played with fake guns and fast   cars on the streets of San  Francisco. Edge Adventures alerts the SFPD   ahead of time that a "crime  situation" is underway, so the  authorities  can ignore the squealing  tires and desperate cries for  help.



Which   is convenient for the gang  of real kidnappers zeroing in on their   target and a mammoth payday.  Because what Daddy doesn't know is that   someone has spotted his hedge  fund's bulging profits, and the path to   those riches runs right through  Daddy's Little Girl.



Working   on a case nearby is  forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and her partner   Gabe Quintana. When the  pair encounters a suspicious group of men   carting six sullen college  kids to the woods for a supposed wilderness   adventure, alarm bells ring.  Jo takes a closer look, and winds up with   an invite to Autumn  Reiniger's twenty-first birthday party-a party  they  may never leave.



"Bringing   her two series leads together for the first time, Gardiner pits    forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett (The Dirty Secrets Club) and reporter    Evan Delaney (Kill Chain) against a kidnapping team that's out for    something more than ransom in this strong thriller. When Evan contacts    Jo in San Francisco for help with a story on the suspicious death of    attorney Phelps Wylie, whose body was found in a mine in the Sierras, Jo    agrees to conduct a psychological autopsy on Wylie, including poking    around the mine with her pararescueman boyfriend, Gabe Quintana." -   Publishers Weekly



Meg    Gardiner previously practiced law and taught at the University of    California, Santa Barbara. Originally from Southern California, she now    lives with her family in London. The Dirty Secrets Club is her first novel published in the U.S.



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