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Genesis
666 pages
A dread-soaked, visceral thriller that forces deeply scarred professionals to confront unimaginable cruelty.
What it feels like
This is a propulsive, dread-soaked thriller that plunges readers into the darkest corners of human cruelty. The narrative moves with the frantic, adrenaline-fueled urgency of an emergency room, pulling you through a harrowing landscape of hidden horrors and sadistic violence. It is an unflinching read, anchored by a gritty and visceral prose style that refuses to look away from the physical and psychological toll of trauma. Yet, beneath the relentless suspense and grisly discoveries, it is deeply concerned with the emotional scars of its protagonists. Readers who crave dark, high-stakes mysteries will be captivated by this tense exploration of broken people forced to confront their own tragic pasts in order to stop a monster.
- Mood
- dread-soaked
- tense
- harrowing
- claustrophobic
- Tone
- gritty
- urgent
- dark
- unflinching
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- confronting a tragic past · psychological toll of violence · healing through action · hidden horrors
- The writing
- The prose is sharp, visceral, and unsparing, pulling the reader directly into the clinical realities of trauma and the frantic pace of a murder investigation.
- The arc
- The journey moves from a fragile attempt at healing into a harrowing plunge into darkness, ultimately demanding that broken people confront their own trauma to stop a monster.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave dark, high-stakes suspense where deeply flawed, traumatized professionals hunt down sadistic killers.
Content notes
- graphic violence
- torture
- murder
- medical trauma
About the book
Someone had spent time with her – someone well-practised in the art of pain... Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalised, it's clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth – Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. And Sara, Will and Faith – each with their own wounds and their own secrets – are the only thing that stands between a madman and his next crime...
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