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Blood Hunt

(2026)
(The second book in the Aria Hunt series)
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For fans of Lisa Gardner and Robert Dugoni—this thriller hits hard and doesn’t let go till the last page.

A judge walks into a small-town police station at 3:19 AM and confesses to a murder he cannot describe, in a location he cannot name, to a victim he cannot identify.

By morning he is gone from a locked cell. Vanished in thin air.

In the desert mountains of Veil Canyon, Nevada, a body has been found deep inside Devil's Backbone Mine. Arranged. Preserved. Identical to a body found five years ago in the same chamber. And twenty-two years before that, three sisters who were never recovered.

The pattern is not new. It is simply starting again.

FBI Special Agent Aria Hunt sees patterns where others see chaos. It is the thing that makes her exceptional—and impossible. When Judge Alexander Ashworth walks out of a locked cell leaving nothing behind but a wolf carving and a note with her name on it, she has no choice but to follow the pattern to where it leads.

More than a hundred feet underground. Into a mine that has been taking people for over two decades and giving nothing back.

A missing girl. A compromised deputy still standing in the dark. A judge who planned every detail before he ever walked through a door. And something in the chamber below that the CO readings and the infrasound frequencies and the gas readings can almost explain.

Almost.

Hunt must witness.

The note said so.

She intends to do more than witness.

When FBI is out of leads, they bring in
Special Agent Aria Hunt, a brilliant mind buried in the Records Division, known only to a few as ‘The Pattern Hunter.’ Diagnosed with Level 1 Autism, Aria doesn’t think like other agents. She sees connections no one else can—quiet details, forgotten cases, anomalies lost in the archives.

Perfect for fans of
Kathy Reichs, Thomas Harris, and Jeffery Deaver - Blood Huntdelivers a neurodivergent FBI investigator, an impossible crime, and a killer who's been hunting for twenty-two years.


Genre: Mystery

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