Death Message

Delivering the “death message” is what cops call those harrowing moments when they must tell someone that a loved one has been killed. Now, Detective Investigator Tom Thorne is receiving death messages of his own on his cell. The first was a picture—the blurred image of a man’s face. But Thorne has seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that this man was no longer alive.

Who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the daily police bulletins for any deaths that could match the photograph. Then another picture arrives—another dead man.

The killer is quickly identified as a man newly released from prison—someone who believes he has little to live for. But why involve Thorne? The answer lies in the detective inspector’s past, with a dangerous psychopath he himself had sent away for life. As if the case itself wasn’t troubling enough, Thorne must face the possibility that his love-life, too, is dying. And against his will, Thorne is also tapped to help with an investigation into Turkish gangs—a deadly world he knows all to well. But when the two cases come together with shocking consequences, Thorne must act, for the next target on the killer’s list is still alive . . . and someone the D.I. knows well.