Meg Gardiner: Phantom Instinct (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
From the Edgar-Award-winning author hailed by Stephen King as "the next suspense superstar" comes her new thriller with "a plot as real as your nightmares" (#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Child)...

One year ago, a shootout in a trendy L.A. club left bartender Harper Flynn's boyfriend dead, Sheriff Deputy Aiden Garrison shattered, and two gunmen engulfed in flames. But if the case is closed, why is Harper still afraid?

Certain that a third gunman escaped and is targeting survivors, Harper pins her last hope on the only person willing to listen. But a traumatic brain injury has left Aiden with a rare and terrifying disorder: a delusion that random people are actually the same person in disguise.

As Harper and Aiden delve deeper into the case, Harper fears that the attack might have been more personal than anyone believed. And now her only ally is unstable, paranoid, and mistrustful -- because he's seeing the same enemy everywhere he looks.

Meg Gardiner: Phantom Instinct. Signet, ISBN: 9780451466099 (June, 2015), 375 p., $8.99.

M. G. Gardiner: The Burning Mind (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
The Burning Mind is the new thriller from the acclaimed Edgar Award-winning writer, M. G. Gardiner.

Harper Flynn nearly died when gunmen attacked the L.A. club where she worked. A year later, Harper tries to rebuild her life - but is failing.

Because not only is she convinced there was a third gunman who escaped, but she also believes that he is targeting the survivors.

The only person who will listen is Sherriff Deputy Aiden Garrison, who tried to save her life that night. But Harper's only ally has a secret of his own - one that makes him suspicious and highly volatile...

M. G. Gardiner: The Burning Mind. Penguin, ISBN: 9781405919418 (November, 2014), 467 p., £6.99.

Meg Gardiner: Phantom Instinct (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
In Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner's new stand-alone thriller, an injured cop and an ex-thief hunt down a killer nobody else believes exists.

When shots ring out in a crowded L.A. club, bartender Harper Flynn watches helplessly as her boyfriend, Drew, is gunned down in the cross fire. Then somebody throws a Molotov cocktail, and the club is quickly engulfed in flames. L.A. Sheriff Deputy Aiden Garrison sees a gunman in a hoodie and gas mask taking aim at Harper, but before he can help her a wall collapses, bringing the building down and badly injuring him.

A year later, Harper is trying to rebuild her life. She has quit her job and gone back to college. Meanwhile, the investigation into the shoot-out has been closed. The two gunmen were killed when the building collapsed.

Certain that a third gunman escaped and is targeting the survivors, Harper enlists the help of Aiden Garrison, the only person willing to listen. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered has cut his career short and left him with Fregoli syndrome, a rare type of face blindness that causes the delusion that random people are actually a single person changing disguises.

As Harper and Aiden delve into the case, Harper realizes that her presence during the attack was no coincidence -- and that her only ally is unstable, mistrustful of her, and seeing the same enemy everywhere he looks.

Meg Gardiner: Phantom Instinct. A Novel. Dutton, ISBN: 9780525954316 (June, 2014), 356 p., $26.95.