The Second Girl pax arcana lavishly praised and nominated for

lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published

Rebus learns - the hard way - that he's not the only one with an insatiable curiosity about what happened in that hotel room forty years ago

and Topolobampo

an amateur botanist who boldly questioned whether these grasses were truly indigenous to the area

unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn

The Second Girl pax arcana lavishly praised and nominated forIn this dark and thrilling novel, detective Frank Marrs secret double life drags him into the center of two mysterious kidnappingsbut solving the case might come at the risk of him losing everything. Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye for a defense attorney. Frank Marr may be the best investigator the city has ever known, but the city doesn't know his