Labyrinth (FBI Series #23)

by Catherine Coulter Narrated by Tim Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld

Overview

The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which agents Savich and Sherlock stumble into a bizarre case that's more complicated and twisted than any they've ever encountered.

On a Tuesday afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is suddenly T-boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man's body slams against her windshield and then—blackness. When she finally regains consciousness in the hospital, she's told about the accident and the man she struck. No one knows yet who he is or where he is because he ran away. From DNA, they discover his name is Justice Cummings and he's a CIA analyst at Langley...and he's still missing.

Meanwhile, in the small town of Gaffer's Ridge, Virginia, Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith rescues a kidnapped woman claiming her captor had probably murdered three missing teenage girls. However, the man she accuses is the local sheriff's nephew and a member of a very powerful family, reputed to have psychic powers. When the sheriff arrests Griffin and the rescued woman, Carson DaSilva, he calls Savich for help. Together they have to weave their way through a labyrinth of lies to find the truth of a terrible secret.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

08/19/2019

Bestseller Coulter’s high-speed 23rd FBI thriller (after 2018’s Paradox) opens on a busy road in Washington, D.C., where an SUV rams into FBI agent Lacey Sherlock’s car, causing her to spin out of control and hit a man, who subsequently disappears. Sherlock wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the accident, nor of her husband, fellow agent Dillon Savich. The FBI determines that the man she ran into was CIA analyst Justice Cummings. The search for Cummings uncovers chilling links to an international spy plot. Meanwhile, in tiny Gaffer’s Ridge, Va., FBI agent Griffin Hammersmith rescues kidnapped journalist Carson Di Silva, who tells him that her abductor, Rafer Bodine, is also responsible for the disappearance of three teenagers, information she received through a psychic experience. The local sheriff, Rafer’s uncle, declares him innocent and jails Hammersmith and Di Silva. In an attempt to help Sherlock regain her memory, Savich brings her to Gaffer’s Ridge to investigate the abduction of the teens. Never mind the unlikely plot developments. Readers will cheer kick-butt Sherlock all the way to the action-packed finale. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. (July)

From the Publisher

Praise for Catherine Coulter's FBI Thrillers

"The 23rd installment in Catherine Coulter's FBI Thriller series comes out this summer, and you're going to want to grab a copy." (Bustle)

"Catherine Coulter is one of the bonafide rockstars of the thriller genre, and her last book, Paradox, was as good as anything she’s written. Labyrinth promises to be another 'white-knuckled' thriller, which means Coulter’s fans better get their pre-ordering on nice and early." (The Real Book Spy)

"Pulse-pounding...Coulter fans will have a tough time putting this one down." (Publishers Weekly)

“Compelling characters, a timely plot, and international intrigue conspire to keep pages turning.” (Criminal Element)

“If there’s one thing that readers can count on in a Coulter novel it is that she always delivers amazingly eerie and complex thrillers.” (RT Book Reviews)

“Action is nonstop ... Perfect reading for the beach and beyond.” (Booklist)

“Bestseller Coulter is at the top of her game in her 21st FBI thriller featuring married agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock (after 2016’s Insidious).” (Publishers Weekly)

SEPTEMBER 2019 - AudioFile

The narration team of Tim Campbell and Saskia Maarleveld draws listeners into this mystery with voices that shape the characters in two related storylines. Agent Sherlock has an accident that gives her amnesia. Meanwhile, a colleague who has psychic abilities is on the trail of a suspected kidnapper in a nearby small town. As Sherlock helps the agent close in on the kidnapper while grappling with her memory loss, the narrators keep the plot on pace and enjoyable to hear. They give Southern accents to the kidnapper’s family, which includes a dominating matriarch whose gravelly voice reflects anger and resentment whenever she speaks. Minor characters are never given short shrift. The narrating duo’s creative voices make this mystery leap into the mind’s eye. M.B. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172322020
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	07/30/2019
Series:	FBI Thriller Series
Edition description:	Unabridged

Read an Excerpt

Labyrinth
WASHINGTON, D.C.

LATE AUGUST

TUESDAY, LATE AFTERNOON

Sherlock had the next hour planned out to the minute. A quick stop at Clyde’s Market for mozzarella cheese for Dillon’s lasagna and some Cheerios for Sean’s breakfast tomorrow, then thirty minutes at the gym: fifteen minutes on the treadmill and some quick upper-body work, that is if she managed to avoid Tim Maynard, a newly divorced firefighter who kept putting the moves on her. She was bummed she couldn’t be with Dillon at the gym as usual, sweating her eyebrows off, but she’d been tied up in a meeting about the Mason Springs, Ohio, middle school murders. She thought of Agent Lucy McKnight, who’d been in the meeting with her until she had to run out to throw up. Lucy was four months pregnant now, nearly over the heaves, she had announced when she’d returned to the meeting, and everyone had applauded. Sherlock, Shirley, the CAU secretary and commandant, and Agent Ruth Noble were giving Lucy a just-beyond first-trimester party this Friday evening at Shirley’s condo. Not a baby shower, too early for that. Their gift to her would be two pairs of pants with elastic waists. Sherlock flashed back to her own pregnancy with Sean, how happy and terrified she’d been. Lucy had a good man in Agent Coop McKnight. What a wild ride the two of them had had before they’d hooked up.

Sherlock had only enough time to jerk the wheel left, fast and hard, before the black SUV struck her passenger side. The impact hurled her Volvo into a parked sedan, and then spun her into the oncoming traffic. The world sped up, blurred into insanity. As if from a great distance, she heard horns honking, screaming metal, yells. Her Volvo struck the front fender of a truck, glanced off, hit a sedan trying to swerve out of her way, ricocheted off yet another swerving car. Her head slammed against the steering wheel an instant before the airbag exploded in her face. She heard a sharp thunk and saw only a flash of what looked like a body flying across the hood of the Volvo, and bouncing off her wildly spinning car. Her brain registered splattered blood on the windshield—she’d hit someone. He’d come out of nowhere. She looked at all the blood, so much blood. Hers? The person’s she’d hit? The world turned round and round, a whirling kaleidoscope of colors and shapes, until they ended when the Volvo’s rear end slammed into a fire hydrant. Her head was thrown violently forward into the bag and she was out.

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