“A beautiful woman is kidnapped after leaving a Paris shop and is brutally beaten and suspended from the ceiling in a wooden crate in an abandoned warehouse by a man who tells her he wants to watch her die. Police Commander Camille Verhoeven is assigned to the case after eyewitnesses report the abduction. He is a detective whose tragic past has crippled him but now uses his extraordinary investigative abilities to understand the victim realizing that trying to save her before she dies is only one of the challenges before him and his team. Alex is chilling and frequently horrifying as the plot twists and turns catching the reader by surprise at every turn.”

-- Fran Keilty, Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot, CT