Cradle To Grave - Paperback

In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, 2005, Katie and Jo Jo are next-door neighbors and best friends, bound by scraped knees, shared secrets, and whispered promises. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina tears them apart. Jo Jo's life becomes consumed by neglect, abuse, and violence, made unbearable when she learns of the death of her beloved Katie.

What survives is not innocence, but memory.

And memory can be lethal.

Twenty years later, New Orleans is stalked by a killer whose violence is precise, intimate, and deliberate. Homicide detective Paget Ellington, herself marked by the storm, is pulled into the investigation, only to realize the murders are not random.

They are personal.

The killer knows intimate details of her past. Her fears. The life she believes was buried along with the dead and the missing. But some lives do not. They wait.

As bodies mount and the case tightens, the city's long shadows close in. Old loyalties curdle into obsession. Survival becomes a motive. And the line between who escaped and who was left behind begins to blur.