A measure of darkness : a novel / Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman.

ISBN: 9780399594632
ISBN: 0399594639
Physical Description: 335 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Copyright: &copy;2018

Kellerman, Jonathan, (author.). Kellerman, Jesse (author.).

Summary:

"Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is busy. He's solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. Plus his brother's fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications. Then the phone rings in the dead of the night. A wild party in gentrifying East Bay neighborhood. A heated argument that spills into the street. Gunshots. Chaos. For Clay and his fellow coroners, it's the start of a long night and the first of many to come. The victims keep piling up. What begins as a community tragedy soon becomes lurid fodder for social media. Then smoke clears and the real mystery emerges-one victim's death doesn't match the others. Brutalized and abandoned, stripped of ID, and left to die: She is Jane Doe, a human question mark. And it falls to Clay to give her a name and a voice. Haunted by the cruelty of her death, he embarks on a journey into the bizarre, entering a world where innocence and perversity meet and mingle. There, his relentless pursuit of the truth opens the gateway to a dark and baffling past-and brings him right into the line of fire." From dust jacket.