Find Me

After a nervous breakdown, profiler Reni Fisher, one of the two protagonists of this exquisitely crafted thriller from bestseller Frasier (The Body Readers), left the FBI. As a child, Reni was used by her infamous father, Benjamin Wayne Fisher (aka the Inland Empire Killer), to lure young women to their deaths. She vividly remembers the police leading him away after his arrest three decades earlier. Meanwhile, San Bernardino, Calif., homicide detective Daniel Ellis, has taken an interest in Benjamin’s case since he became convinced as a boy that his missing mother is one of the Inland Empire Killer’s victims. Now incarcerated on San Quentin’s death row, Benjamin summons Franco, the detective who handled his case, with the promise he’ll show Franco the locations of his victims’ bodies; since Franco has retired, Daniel meets with Benjamin instead. Benjamin insists that Reni, who has never visited her father in prison, accompany them on the proposed outing. The secrets unroll as, under the watchful eye of armed guards, Benjamin leads Reni and Daniel on a macabre dance through the Mohave Desert and the first body they uncover has a piece of material draped over it that looks like the dress Daniel’s mother wore the night she went missing. Frasier has outdone herself with this shocker. (July)