Messengers

Freelancer journalist Kendall Jennings writes fluff pieces for women’s magazines. Despite this, when a massacre occurs at Café Amaretto, she scores an exclusive interview with a survivor and suddenly becomes the go-to reporter for the crime.
Lance O’Grady, a veteran detective with eighteen years’ experience, has never seen a crime scene like Café Amaretto. After a man, armed with an axe, went crazy leaving seven people dead, it more resembled a horror movie.
He’s just begun his investigation, when another mass killing occurs. This time it’s arson, and ten elder-care facility residents die in the horrific fire.
Both killers are dead. The crimes have no motive. Lance O’Grady is left wondering how evil can strike twice so quickly. Then it happens again; this one even more shocking. A mother with a gun goes berserk at a child’s birthday party.
Connecting all three is one strange detail. None of the killers have a murderer’s profile. No history of violence, no connection to terrorists. They’re just ordinary citizens who suddenly embark on a killing spree. Are they really just random events or are they somehow connected?
When O’Grady and Kendall cross paths, sparks fly—and not in a good way. As Kendall is drawn deeper inside the investigation, she finds herself, not only clashing with O’Grady, but also struggling with old demons risen up from her past. Everything would be so much easier if this annoying detective O’Grady would just give her a break.
As O’Grady starts piecing together the puzzle of the massacres, he might just be the one person who can save naive Kendall Jennings from joining the growing body count.
Messengers is a page-turning story that takes readers into the minds of mass killers in all their disconcerting madness. It poses the question: does a killer lurk inside everyone just waiting to be freed? The answer could prove more frightening than the crimes.