Raw Wounds: A Tess Grey Thriller

The Portland, Maine, PI and her colleague and lover, Nicholas “Po” Villere, return in Hilton’s action-packed third Tess Grey thriller (after 2016’s Painted Skins). Near the start of the book, Tess and Po are out on a routine job, serving papers to a deadbeat ex-husband, when Po receives a call from his good friend Pinky Leclerc saying that Villere’s estranged mother is on her deathbed and is asking for him. Tess and Po head out to New Iberia, La., where the dying woman informs him he has a sister, Emilia, who was conceived with his father when she was already involved with her current husband. She asks Po to find Emilia, who, unbeknownst to her family, is on the run from the terrifying Menon brothers. Tess, Po, and Pinky are drawn into a family feud that quickly morphs into something altogether more complex and dangerous. The last quarter of the book races along at breakneck speed, with our heroine and Emilia proving that they can be just as resourceful and deadly as any of the gang of hoodlums they’re up against. (July)