The Russian Doll

An easy case turns deadly, spiraling into the kind of bloody chaos that the streets of Chicago know only too well as the heart-pounding twists in this mystery thriller keep coming. Wasting away in a retirement forced upon him under a cloud of suspicion, Raymond “Mack” Mackey finds a new job with the Chandler Illinois Police Department. It might be reason for hope. Or not. Mack can’t seem his to shake his reputation for corruption. Undeserved, sure, but most of his colleagues want to see him locked up or dead anyway. A welcome diversion shows up in the form of Nadia King, an alluring single mother who asks Mack to recover a missing heirloom: an antique Russian nesting doll. It might just be the easiest assignment he’s ever had. Until it isn’t. Appearances are not what they seem. Success, and even Mack’s own redemption, requires separating truth from deception as he travels a path fraught with danger, littered with bodies, and confounded by cold homicide cases suddenly back to life.