A Measure of Darkness
A Clay Edison Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman
Deputy Coroner Clay Edison goes to extreme lengths for a forgotten Jane Doe in the new thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King).
Clay Edison is busy. He’s solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. Plus his brother’s fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications.
Then the phone rings in the dead of night.
A wild party in a gentrifying East Bay neighborhood. A heated argument that spills into the street. Gunshots. Chaos.
For Clay and his fellow coroners, it’s the start of a long night and the first of many to come. The victims keep piling up. What begins as a community tragedy soon becomes lurid fodder for social media.
Then the smoke clears and the real mystery emerges—one victim’s death doesn’t match the others. Brutalized and abandoned, stripped of ID, and left to die: She is Jane Doe, a human question mark. And it falls to Clay to give her a name and a voice.
Haunted by the cruelty of her death, he embarks upon a journey into the bizarre, entering a hidden world where innocence and perversity meet and mingle. There, his relentless pursuit of the truth opens the gateway to a dark and baffling past—and brings him right into the line of fire.
❃❃A Measure of Darkness releases July 31st❃❃
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Momma Says: 3 stars⭐⭐⭐
This police procedural is kind of a slow burn mystery that came up a bit short on the burn. Clay and those around him make up an interesting group of characters, but there are quite a lot of them to keep up with. Then we have several storylines going on at once, which I think was the main reason this one fell flat on the mystery for me. The suspense of Jane Doe's identity and what happened to her gets lost in the many other things going on in Clay's professional and personal life. So, while each part of this one is interesting in its own right, it becomes a bit convoluted when everything is crammed together. Sometimes less is more and I felt like we could've done with some of that here.
❃❃ARC provided by NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine
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