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Last Seen Alive

Minotaur: St. Martin’s. (Ellery Hathaway, Bk. 5). Jan. 2022. 320p. ISBN 9781250249678. $27.99. M
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The fifth in the series featuring Ellery Hathaway (following Every Waking Hour) reunites FBI Special Agent Reed Markham and Boston police detective Hathaway. Serial killer Francis Coben, in prison awaiting execution, promises to reveal details of unsolved murders he is suspected of in exchange for an exclusive interview that includes the only victim that got away—Hathaway. Markham and Hathaway both refuse, until they discover a name on Coben’s list of victims that was new, murdered only months ago, long after Coben was locked up. Desperate to find Coben’s connection to the new killer and provide answers for the families of the missing women whom Coben is suspected of killing, Hathaway agrees. The past comes screaming back to haunt them as Hathaway and Markham search for a new killer and find themselves hunted again by another looking to settle an old score.
VERDICT What starts as a basic police procedural becomes much more as the plot twists and turns, leaving readers uncertain about whom to root for right up to the end. Will appeal to fans of Meg Gardiner, Bryan Gruley, and Brian Freeman.
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