Dead Last — Richard C. Hale

After decades as a police detective, Jaxon Jennings has seen it all: murder, bank robbery, the Russian Mafia-you name it. So, the veteran cop and part-time private eye barely blinks when a distraught man hires him to catch his cheating wife in the act. Jaxon knows he can do this job in his sleep-and soon learns the husband is cheating, too.But what starts as a routine case of infidelity quickly snowballs into a killing spree. Someone-obviously a pro-murders the husband, his wife, both of their lovers, and a growing list of victims who don't seem connected to the case at all.Jaxon has no idea why they're dead, who killed them, or how he can stop the bloodshed. And new bodies are piling up every day.Together with his longtime partner, a couple of hard-charging rookie detectives, and a shadowy figure from his past, Jaxon must race against time and a trained killer who's now targeting his own family, including his four-year-old daughter.In this, his latest nail-biting thriller, author Richard C Hale returns with Jaxon Jennings's toughest case yet. Jaxon might be getting older, but he'll use all his experience, his instinct, and guts to make sure the killer's latest victim is his Dead Last.