Sunrise Highway by Peter Blauner

Sunrise Highway by Peter Blauner

First rate suspense, with a soupcon of horror in the Hannibal Lecter vein. You won't be disappointed. --Stephen King

From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature, comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her, but to make her pay.

In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer.

That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life.

Peter Blauner is the author of Casino Moon, The Intruder, Man of the Hour, The Last Good Day, and Slipping into Darkness. The Intruder was a New York Times bestseller. His novels have been praised by such authors as Stephen King, James Patterson, and Michael Connelly. He studied at Wesleyan University where he won the Paul Horgan Prize for best short fiction by a student. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.