SUNSTROKE is the blazingly original debut from the most exciting new voice in crime fiction today--a superbly crafted modern noir filled with secrets, heartbreak, and mordant humor.
Gloria Mendez is thirty-six, single, and hopelessly in love with her oblivious boss, a soft-spoken loner twenty years her senior. Her friends might urge her to look for someone more her age, but Gloria knows the real thing when she sees it.
So when he disappears while on vacation in Mexico, it’s Gloria who goes in search of him. As she follows his trail deep into the desert, she runs face-first into a staggering history of betrayal and death: the wreckage of a hidden past. Carl Perreira was not the man she thought she knew—nor was he anything she could have imagined.
Her journey will teach her as much about herself as it does about Carl. And as she plunges closer to his fleeing shadow, she will find herself fighting not only for the truth, but for her life.
Serpentine, thought provoking, and brimming with edge-of-the-seat suspense, SUNSTROKE is everything a thriller should be. More than a great read, it’s the start of a brilliant career.
