An Amazon Best of the Year Pick An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story
about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve
crimes. Tattooed pierced and a bit of a mess Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it
comes to words a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The top student in her forensic
linguistics class she’s tapped by local police to use her skills to decipher harrowing notes
left by a stalker-turned-rapist—and succeeds brilliantly. But when the daughter of a local
mayor is abducted Maggie isn’t sure she’s the right person to help the police solve the crime.
Given what happened to her best childhood friend Maggie just might be too close to this one.
Yet she knows the authorities in this rural south-Central Florida town cannot crack the case
without her special skill. Along with her new best friend a detective Jackson Maggie begins
to analyze the texts emails and verbal tics of various suspects . . . and comes to a
disturbing conclusion that will rock this small community.
