Shadowheart

by Meg Gardiner, Hillary Huber (Read by)

Overview

What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other?

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Gardiner comes a new high-octane thriller in the acclaimed UNSUB series.

FBI Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix faces a case from nightmares.

In a Tennessee prison, Efrem Judah Goode draws haunting portraits of women he claims he has killed. Around the country, desperate families of the missing seek answers in his eerie drawings. And on darkened back roads and New York City streets, a new killer poses duct-taped bodies at the sites of Goode’s murders.

Two serial killers are locked in a twisted rivalry. To stop the brutal slayings, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix must unravel the connection between Goode and the Broken Heart Killer. Their warped competition destroys anyone in their path. Caught between a manipulative psychopath and a ruthless UNSUB, Caitlin has to dive into not one, but two dark and twisted minds. She will risk everything, plunging into the depths of their depraved clash to hunt down an unstoppable killer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982627645
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	06/18/2024
Series:	UNSUB Series , #4
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Meg Gardiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels. Her thrillers have won the Edgar Award and been summer reading picks by the Today show and O, the Oprah Magazine. In August 2022 her latest novel, Heat 2, coauthored with Michael Mann, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. A former lawyer and three-time Jeopardy! champion, Gardiner lives in Austin, Texas.

Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.

Editorial Reviews

Brilliantly written. An unforgettable story. Stunning.”

Don Winslow on The Dark Corners of the Night

This is a fantastic series of books by Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner.

Janet Evanovich

Hillary Huber gives a top-shelf performance of this audiobook…Huber’s character voices are excellent…distinct enough that listeners can identify each character. There are many threads to this story, and Huber’s fine work helps bring them together.”

AudioFile

This novel is fantastic…Gripping, clever, and heartfelt.”

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott

Hillary Huber gives a top-shelf performance of this audiobook featuring some really twisted serial killers. Her narrative voice is pleasant and captures the scene and atmosphere of the moment. It also keeps the complicated plot moving. FBI Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix of the Behavioral Analysis Unit is charged with finding out how serial killer Efrem Judah Goode, now imprisoned in Tennessee, is connected to a copycat killer. Huber's character voices are excellent. Her tonal shifts between them are subtle but distinct enough that listeners can identify each character. There are many threads to this story, and Huber's fine work helps bring them together. G.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2023 - AudioFile

What makes the UNSUB novels work so well is the way Gardiner…has designed her protagonist…As always, the writing is exquisite and the story is perfectly crafted.”

Booklist

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read.”

Karin Slaughter

Meg Gardiner’s trademark strengths…characters as real as your friends, and a plot as real as your nightmares.”

Lee Child on Dark Corners of the Night

Meg Gardiner is the next suspense superstar.”

Stephen King

Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer…I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”

Tess Gerritsen

Gardiner makes every one of her characters leap alive off the page.”

Jeffery Deaver

2023-07-13
The fourth of Gardiner’s UNSUB series opens a door into what seems like an endless series of homicides.

Arrested by Jessup County Deputy Marius Hayes in a Tennessee motel parking lot, drifter Efrem Judah Goode insists he had nothing to do with the deaths of the three women inside the motel or the fourth, also mummy-wrapped with duct tape, in the back seat of the car he’d been driving. But he’s perfectly willing to cop to 13 other homicides stretching back to 2003. He’s unsurprisingly convicted of the four brand-new murders as well, but Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, isn’t satisfied. Working with other members of the unit willing to put in endless hours in pursuit of scant evidence, she realizes that this new streak of murders, which continues apace while Goode is safely imprisoned, is the work of a copycat. Acting on further information from Finch Winter, an adopted teen who’s convinced that her birth mother was one of Goode’s victims, she uncovers enough links between Goode and the copycat to reach a truly alarming conclusion: Yesteryear’s killer knows perfectly well about his latter-day imitator and is doing his best to provide information and directives about potential victims from his prison cell. As the bodies dot roadsides from the Southeast to New York, Caitlin, who also gets potentially distracting hints that the elusive killer she’s called the Ghost is still active, struggles to come up with a reason why at least two different killers would target so many victims from so many places for such a long time. Readers will likely be divided on whether the final surprises are worth the slog.

Enough murders, past and present, to sate all but the most voracious serial-killer buffs.

Kirkus Reviews