Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents (USA 2022)

From the Publisher:
"Outstanding... An attention to forensic and procedural detail unmatched outside of Ed McBain's best... A read-through-the-night story" (Kirkus Reviews).

Police Sgt. Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer -- but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape? Did she knowingly jump in the water to preserve a clue? And is she now desperately trying to tell Boldt something? With the help of the alluring Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist, Boldt must piece together the complex puzzle.

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Chris Klick series and the Walt Fleming series, this thriller reveals "an authentic feeling for police investigation and forensic medicine, and a remarkable insight and understanding of the motivations of the criminal mind" (Publishers Weekly).

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents. Rosetta Books, ISBN: 9780795300257 (October, 2022), 272 p., $22.99.

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
"Outstanding... An attention to forensic and procedural detail unmatched outside of Ed McBain's best... A read-through-the-night story" (Kirkus Reviews).

Police Sgt. Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer -- but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape? Did she knowingly jump in the water to preserve a clue? And is she now desperately trying to tell Boldt something? With the help of the alluring Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist, Boldt must piece together the complex puzzle.

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Chris Klick series and the Walt Fleming series, this thriller reveals "an authentic feeling for police investigation and forensic medicine, and a remarkable insight and understanding of the motivations of the criminal mind" (Publishers Weekly).

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents. Rosetta Books, ISBN: 9780795340079 (April, 2014), eBook, 752 KB (ca. 465 p.), $1.99.

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
UNDERCURRENTS
Seattle is a city paralyzed by fear. A serial killer is loose on its streets. And as each new victim surfaces-chest slashed, eyes taped open-the tide of panic rises.

UNDERCURRENTS
Driven by guilt and frustration, too exhausted to consider stopping, Detective Lou Boldt thinks he's finally gotten the break he needs to end the Cross Killer's twisted spree. But each new clue contradicts another. And each new corpse mocks Boldt's efforts.

UNDERCURRENTS
To fathom the silent tale told by the latest corpse washed up in Puget Sound, Boldt has to go beyond every state-of-the-art method at his disposal. But as he gets closer to the truth, he travels deeper into the tortured mind of a relentless killer... into the depths of his own fear... and into a whirlpool of madness more frightening than his worst nightmares.

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312929587 (April, 1989), 435 p., $4.95.

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
Police Sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's Homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city.

But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer - but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape? Did she knowingly jump in the water to preserve a clue? And is she now desperately trying to tell Boldt something?

With the help of the alluring Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist, Boldt pieces together the complex puzzle - and the reader is taken along on a journey into the mind of a killer, and into the day-by-day nuts and bolts of police work, that is among the best in modern crime fiction.

For readers of Caunitz, Wambaugh, and Sanders, Undercurrents is a roller-coaster ride in the dark that will intrigue, startle, and satisfy.

Ridley Pearson: Undercurrents. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 031201841X (May, 1988), 435 p., $18.95.