Maggie Exton

Thomas Lynch is on the track of the "movie buff" killer, but inside one investigation, there may be another... Baltimore has been holding its breath for months. A serial killer nicknamed "the movie-buff" has been killing women, embalming them and making them up to look like Grace Kelly. Everything takes off when Maggie Exton, wife of the Assistant Chief of Staff at the Whitehouse, disappears. The investigation is entrusted to three very different men: Thomas Lynch, a cop who fights his terrible moods with excessive donut consumption; Jack Miller, a former FBI agent turned private detective; and Peter, an exceptionally intelligent misanthropic geek. They could never have imagined where this would take them... because in the days of the Patriot Act, America is drowning. Crowd surveillance, the war on terror, cyber technology... the end justifies the means and the CIA will stop at nothing. And definitely not at the unmentionable. Zoé Shepard has written several hilarious satires about civil servants, including Absolument dé-bor-dée ! which has sold over 400,000 copies. Maggie Exton is her first thriller.