Murders in Blackwood Bay

Detective Asya Aydin is just an exotic distraction. Half-Turkish, sharp-featured, and undeniably hot, she is a woman trapped in a locker-room precinct where the older cops look at her with wandering eyes and write her off as a diversity hire. They underestimate her, refusing to let her near anything heavy or bloody. They think she's fragile. They think she's just a target.

They are dead wrong.

Beneath her sharp features and ice-cold exterior, Asya is fighting a roaring static inside her skull. Haunted by the childhood execution of her parents, she numbs the pain with pills, weed and promiscuous sex, walking a razor-thin line of self-destruction. But when a string of theatrical, anatomically flawless murders tears through the valley, the Chief of Police throws her into the deep end.

As the body count rises, the killer's timeline warps, weaving a sick, personal web straight back to the night her parents died. With her colleagues waiting for her to trip and a killer calling her out into the rain-lashed mud of the ridge, Asya must face a terrifying truth: can a fractured, pill-regulated mind outmaneuver a monster, or will the ghosts in her head pull the trigger first?