Bøker av Isabella Maldonado

A dead man's riddles--and secrets--thrust an FBI codebreaker into a deadly cross-country race for justice in a propulsive thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Cipher.During a recent undercover sting gone bad, hit man Gustavo Toro died in the arms of FBI Special Agent Daniela "Dani" Vega. But Toro had secrets he refused to take to the grave.In the event of his death, Toro left behind a video that promises to expose a mysterious mastermind who has been operating with impunity for decades. But there's a catch. Dani's team must follow Toro's cryptic clues on a cross-country hunt for justice, and piecing together his past is more twisted than Dani could have imagined.But as Dani and her team race to gather the evidence, it's clear this powerful adversary will stop at nothing to keep their secrets--including eliminating those who threaten to reveal them.

"FBI Special Agent Daniela "Dani" Vega was seventeen when her mother murdered her father. Ten years after Dani's own damning eyewitness testimony sealed her mother's fate, she's starting to have doubts. What if she got it all wrong? A veteran NYPD homicide detective agrees to reopen the closed case on one condition-Dani must help him find a serial killer who's been operating throughout New York City for the past decade. If anyone can decipher his patterns, and his riddles, it's a trained codebreaker like Dani. The killer knows this too. And his next riddle-and victim-is meant just for her. For Dani, stopping a killer-and learning what really happened to her father-becomes more personal and more dangerous with each new twist. As secrets of the past are unearthed, the truth could forever change Dani's life...and the lives of everyone she loves"--

After witnessing the murder of the chief of staff for a powerful New York senator, FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela Vega goes deep undercover to unravel a bizarre conspiracy where she must play a killer's game alongside an assassin-turned-informant and there can only be one winner.

"Six female undergrads at an elite university vanish. The media descends. The families demand action. And as Special Agent Nina Guerrera follows clue by chilling clue, she realizes she's tracking the most cunning predator of her career. The case takes a turn for the worse, and the bizarre, when several victims are found perfectly preserved. No signs of violence, no hint of how they died. Just more evidence that the killer is cruel, calculating, and a master of mind control. With her mission compromised, Nina must face her greatest failure--and greatest fear--to stop a deadly hunter before he claims another prize" --

"A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than two thousand miles away. In the process, they'll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it's back to haunt her. Nina has known evil, but these macabre reenactments are as disturbing as they are baffling. Now she must uncover the meaning behind the rituals as the evidence leads her in an unexpected direction-- far closer to home than anyone could have imagined. As the team narrows in on a suspect, the present collides with Nina's past in a twist of fate that forces her to make the ultimate sacrifice."--Back cover.

"Homicide detective Veranda Cruz takes on the most ruthless member of the Villalobos cartel. Phoenix homicide detective Veranda Cruz is on a mission. After Hector Villalobos tried to destroy her family, Veranda vowed to take down his powerful crime syndicate. Beautiful, shrewd, and lethal, Daria Villalobos is on a mission of her own. Determined to be the first woman to take the reins of her father's notorious cartel, she hatches a plot to eliminate Veranda. When the investigation blows up in Veranda's face, the hunt is on to stop a bomber. Veranda battles her department and her personal demons as she takes on Daria. To survive her most cunning adversary yet, will she make a pact with a killer?"--Back cover

Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First NovelPhoenix detective Veranda Cruz is dead set on taking down the Villalobos crime family, but the ruthlessness of her quarry demands a ruthless edge of her own.No one in the department suspects the real motivation behind the obsession that pits her against Bartolo Villalobos, heir apparent to a powerful criminal empire...until an operation goes horribly wrong. Targeted by an increasingly unstable foe, Veranda must protect her family and navigate adversaries within the force while she sets a trap for Bartolo. As the action heats up, Veranda and her new Homicide team-along with an arson investigator who kindles a flame of his own-are all drawn into a deadly gambit. Taking down Bartolo is the ultimate goal, but is Veranda ready to trade her life for justice?