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SHE KILLED A MAN.
HE DESERVED IT.
BUT JUSTICE ISN'T YET DONE.

First in an explosive new thriller series set in the eighties from the author of the critically acclaimed Miranda Corbie series introduces the fierce feminist Renata Drake-on the run from the FBI for the execution-style murder of her little sister's killer.

"Vivid and haunting. I'm eager to hear more from the tenacious and resourceful Renata Drake" Meg Gardiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author

California, Southern Humboldt County, 1985. Renata Drake steps off a Greyhound bus and into small-town Garberville, hoping to disappear. She checks the papers. She's not headline news. Not yet.

But she's made a mistake. The FBI have the cannabis-producing "Emerald Triangle" town- and its corrupt residents-in their sights. Even worse, a teenage girl is missing, and when she turns up dead, the third in three years, it's clear a serial killer is living among them.

Renata knows about murdered girls and the burning desire for justice-and for revenge. Her younger sister Josie is gone, and now, so is the man who killed her. Renata didn't stay in Washington, D.C. to be arrested for executing a murderer, and she shouldn't stay here either. But Renata decides to investigate, and what she uncovers will trigger a final reckoning: For herself, for a killer, and for all of Southern Humboldt.

This powerful, page-turning thriller explores the human cost of corruption and the psychological toll that violence takes on women.



About the Author :

Kelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed author of the historical noir Miranda Corbie Mysteries, set in 1940s San Francisco and featuring "one of crime's most arresting heroines" (Library Journal). She is also the author of two Roman noir mysteries, and numerous short stories and essays.

A recipient of the Anthony, Macavity, and Bruce Alexander Awards, Shamus Award nominee, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, Kelli was chosen to be the Historical Mystery Guest of Honor for the Bouchercon Mystery Conference in 2024.

Kelli holds a master's degree in Classics, and when she's not reading or writing, loves nature walks, jazz, classic film, travel, and, with her spouse, taking care of their two rescue cats.



Review :
Remember her name: Renata Drake. She is the female Jack Reacher we've been hoping for A real page-turner Kelli Stanley's atmospheric mystery immerses us in a land of beauty, crime, and danger. Set during the unsettling era of 1980s west coast serial killers, the story is vivid and haunting. I'm eager to hear more from the tenacious and resourceful Renata Drake Stanley does a fantastic job of immersing the reader in the world of 1985, and . . . balances the intense suspense with insight into a young woman's experience before the #MeToo movement, domestic abuse laws, and Obergefell. Fans of the Peacock series Poker Face should definitely give this a try Stanley's fine mystery . . . treats the reader A darkly beautiful work, one of the best to be published so far this year The vigor and pace of a terrific Warner Bros. film noir Engrossing historical fiction It's neonoir in a classical five-act structure, starring one of crime's most arresting heroines Outstanding . . . A superb series


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781448317554
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Severn House
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 144831755X
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: A Renata Drake Thriller


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