Take a thrilling twisty tension-filled ride in Mary Burton’s latest, DON’T LOOK NOW.  Austin Homicide Detective, Jordan Poe, is as tough as they come.   Having dealt with her own family’s addictions, Jordan is resilient and street smart.   Now she’s up against a ruthless killer that has a similar MO to what happened to her sister, Avery, two years ago.   Avery survived her ordeal, but will Jordan?

A monster is killing women in Austin, Texas.  Not only is he killing them, but also he is deriving pleasure from watching them suffocate by wrapping them in sheets of plastic.  Jordan Poe is called to investigate the death of a Jane Doe left in an abandoned house.  The manner of death has similarities to an assault her sister experienced two years prior.  The killer is targeting young women who are struggling with substance abuse addictions.  When another body appears weeks later with the same MO, Jordan knows they have a serial killer on their hands.  When a third girl goes missing, Texas Ranger, Carter Spencer, is called in to take over.  Jordan is unhappy with this transfer of power, but when Jordan herself is injured and loses her vision at a crime scene, she realizes Ranger Spencer will be her best chance at stopping this monster and keeping her sister safe.

Burton’s DON’T LOOK NOW takes readers on a tense-filled ride through the dangerous landscape of addiction.  The players are predatory and abusive and the killer’s MO keeps evolving into a more dark and sinister place.  Homicide Detective, Jordan Poe, is a tough character who has dealt with the fallout of her own family’s addictions.  She is fiercely protective of her sister, an ex-addict, who is trying to do better.  When Jordan loses her vision, and must rely on others for assistance, her tenacity shines through.  Filled with several possible suspects from a shady defense attorney to a notorious drug dealer who pimps out his girlfriends, readers will not guess the identity of the monster until the very end.   Good solid writing and a suspense-filled story make this a highly entertaining addictive read you’ll find hard to put down.

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