THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES!

A woman found dead in her apartment. One leg surgically removed. And a killer who's building a chain only he can see.

When a Washington, D.C. landlord forces his way into a delinquent tenant's unit, he finds a body that's been dead for weeks in an otherwise spotless apartment. One leg is missing — not severed at the scene, but taken. Cleanly. Clinically. As if it were never there.

FBI Special Agent Katie Ford is already fighting a war on two fronts. Her partner Nina Shaw is recovering in a hospital bed. The escaped serial killer Calvin Calloway is circling closer. And now Director Vance wants Katie to mentor a rookie — Brooke Vance, a sharp-eyed former counterterrorism analyst with everything to prove and no idea what she's walking into.

Sent to rural Pennsylvania to investigate, Katie and Brooke discover a second victim, then a third. Each killed by injection. Each missing a leg. And each connected to the next by a single shared trait — age, profession, name — like links in a chain the killer is forging one body at a time.

As the body count accelerates and every lead crumbles, Katie realizes this isn't random violence. It's a pattern that loops back on itself. A son's twisted tribute to a mother who destroyed him. And the final link in his chain is a woman with two different-colored eyes — a woman who looks exactly like the rookie Katie just sent to his door. Alone.

Now Katie must race across a dark Pennsylvania night to stop a killer who's been invisible from the start — a ghost with a master key, a surgeon's tools, and a list that's almost complete.

CATCHER is a dark, relentless FBI thriller about obsession, maternal trauma, and the lethal patterns hiding in plain sight — perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and Robert Dugoni. The eighth book in the Katie Ford FBI Thriller series by Sam Baron.

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