I Kill Killers

Leah Nachtnebel leads two lives. In the daytime she is a celebrated pianist. After dark she puts her intellect to work finding serial killers who think they have escaped justice, and she kills them.

Her latest victim turns out to be linked to her by a coincidence, and that link ends her run of luck. An FBI agent with a stubborn streak picks up her trail and starts asking questions that land uncomfortably near her own life.

Leah is soon caught in a cat-and-mouse game on two fronts. One side is the agent closing in on her. The other is a killer whose cunning matches hers.

This is a dark crime thriller that sits in the moral gray area between hero and villain, so the protagonist is hard to cheer for or condemn with any ease. It opens the Dark Crime Series, and We Kill Killers and Final Kill come after it.

The open question is how long a woman who hunts predators can stay ahead of both the law and a rival as clever as she is.