Leningrad by Anna Reid

Leningrad by Anna Reid

The line between justice and the rule of law can get a little fuzzy at times. Juryn Rayne's younger brother is almost killed defending his fiancee from a vicious rape attack. As Juryn sits in the hospital, watching her brother struggle for life, she makes a vow to rid the world of rapists. She drops out of Special Forces and joins the FBI's Serial Homicide Division, where she learns forensics and other skills to help her fulfill her vow. She leaves the FBI to go to law school, where she learns how to get away with murder.

Now, ten years later, Juryn is a lawyer with a dark secret, a secret she kept hidden during her time at the FBI, a secret she concealed from her law school, a secret that could get her the death sentence.

Juryn's old team at the FBI has taken an interest in a serial killer who has been killing rapists. No one on the team is aware that Juryn is the killer they are after. Can she protect her secret and continue dispensing the justice she has vowed to bring? Or will she be found out and brought to justice by the very people who were once her friends?

The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia and Borderland: A Trip Through the History of Ukraine are both written by Anna Reid. She graduated from the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies with a master's degree in Russian history and reform economics. From 1993 to 1995, she was the Ukrainian reporter for The Economist and the Daily Telegraph, and from 2003 to 2007, she was the director of Policy Exchange's international affairs program.