Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798998638886)

The Saturday before Thanksgiving, Evelyn Armstrong flies home to Bronxville, New York-eighteen, freshman at Virginia, valedictorian of the class of 2022. Her father picks her up at the airport with a pistol strapped to his ankle. By Tuesday morning, searchers find her in the woods of Twin Lakes, throat cut, left to the wolves.

Two men hunt for whoever did it. Neither one is built to stop.

James Prince drives north from Manhattan carrying his father's legend, a divorce he earned, a young daughter he sees in rationed hours, and a drinking problem he pretends is handled. He's the Bureau's most gifted profiler-an instinct so sharp it borders on clairvoyance-and every case he closes costs him something he doesn't get back. Bronxville will name its price early and collect in installments.

Richard Armstrong isn't waiting on a warrant. He's a decorated Navy SEAL with two combat tours behind him, and his talent for violence-once sanctioned by his country-now answers to nothing but grief. While Prince builds a case, Richard dismantles the town, moving through its manicured streets with the quiet certainty of a man who has already decided how this ends and no longer cares who ends with it.

One hunts by the book. One burned the book. And as a historic blizzard seals Bronxville off from the world, only one of them is hunting the right man. The other is about to learn what separates justice from vengeance: not the man, not the grief, but where the gun ends up pointing.