Seven Girls Gone

For three years, women have vanished from the bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana, and each time one is found, she is dead. Detective Beau Hebert is the only cop who seems to care. Witnesses go quiet or are silenced, and his own police department works to keep the cases cold.

With no one local left to trust, Beau calls in a favor from a friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. Kara Quinn, an LAPD detective, goes undercover to dig into the murders. Team leader Matt Costa takes on the official inquiry into the death of a witness in custody.

This is a police procedural thriller and the fourth entry in the Quinn & Costa series. It unfolds in a small swamp-country town where everyone knows everyone and talking gets people killed. The mood is tense and closed in, and the investigation moves through a web of buried secrets.

As the team presses on, it becomes clear that the corruption in St. Augustine is tied to a deadly drug-trafficking ring whose reach goes well beyond the town limits. Beau finally has a real chance at the truth, but only if the team can keep working while the town does everything to stop them.