Before Dark Falls
(2027)(The fourth book in the Ava Cortes CBI Thrillers series)
A novel by Raquel Byrnes
Fire is his dark comfort. Demanding. Devouring. Deadly. And now it’s calling for Ava.
Agent Ava Cortes, on assignment in San Francisco, is called in to assist an arson investigator who is working a case in the Napa Valley wine region, where a serial offender operating in the area just leapt from setting nuisance fires around town to lighting up two homes in one night, killing seven people.He slips into their safe places like smoke in the night, undetectable and so far, unstoppable. With his attacks ramping up, his body count rising, and the fires growing deadlier by the minute, the team fights to identify the killer before he takes more lives. Yet every truth Ava uncovers points further into the past.
In a town teeming with money, privilege, and decades-deep secrets, Ava must chase down a psychotic killer intent on burning it all and taking her with him.
He is the monster’s keeper. Its faithful hand of death. And faith like his only ends in blood.
Genre: Mystery