A Game of Poisons. Thorne & Hayes 1.
Stumbling onto a dead body on his morning jog wasn’t how Noah Thorne expected to start his new career as a homicide detective in NYPD. Running into his ex on the crime scene wasn’t in his books either, but there he is, ruining Noah’s first day.
Detective Trevor Hayes didn’t expect to meet his new partner over a dead body. A rich boy lawyer from Boston wasn’t who he had in mind either. The two of them have nothing in common—apart from a good taste in suits—and the drama Noah brings into the partnership is something else. What was their captain thinking?
The death of a young woman is puzzling. There are no signs of violence or any evidence of outside presence, but the body has clearly been staged. Was the death an attention seeking stunt gone wrong? Or is it work of a very careful killer? Evidence points to several directions at once, and one of them is Noah’s ex, Assistant DA Oliver Prescott.
Noah and Trevor have their plate full with the puzzling mystery, Noah’s ex, and his aunt, a criminal psychologist with her own views about the killer. Can the new partners solve the mystery before they become the next victims in the game of poisons?
This buddy cop police procedural is a P.I. Tracy Hayes spin-off, but it can easily be read as a stand-alone too.
Interested? Read the first chapter here. The book comes out on December 6.