The Shadow Tracer

The Shadow Tracer is a nerve-jangling, fast-paced new thriller from the Edgar Award-winning writer, M. G. Gardiner 
 
When someone wants to find you badly enough, vanishing is no longer an option. 
 
Sarah Keller is a young single mother living in Oklahoma with her five-year-old daughter, Zoe. Her day job is to hunt out people on the run and bring them to justice. So imagine how it looks when a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER and tests reveal Sarah can't be Zoe's mother. 
 
Sarah has been living a lie for years and finally the truth is coming out. Who is she? Who were Zoe's parents? And why does Zoe's identity bring the FBI down on Sarah's tail in mere minutes? 
 
The FBI is the least of her worries, though. Sarah needs to keep Zoe off the grid, but with a sinister religious cult also on the trail, where on earth can they hide? 
 
Something deadly lurks in Sarah's past and its resurfacing brings terror to all it touches. 
 
Fans of Jeffery Deaver and Andrew Gross will love this slick page-turner of a thriller. 
 
Praise for M.G. Gardiner: 
'The next suspense superstar' Stephen King 
 
'Stephen King is absolutely right. M.G. Gardiner is an astonishing writer . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' Tess Gerritsen 
 
'Edgar Award-winner Gardiner steadily ratchets up the suspense in this taut stand-alone tale' Booklist 
 
 
M G Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California Santa Barbara. She's a former collegiate cross-country runner and a three time Jeopardy! champion. She lives with her family near London. 
 
She has won many awards for her writing, including the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel and the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense audiobook of the year.

Edgar Award-winner Gardiner steadily ratchets up the suspense in this taut stand-alone tale

M. G. Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California Santa Barbara. She's a former collegiate cross-country runner and a three time Jeopardy! champion. She lives with her family near London. 
 
She has won many awards for her writing, including the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel and the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense audiobook of the year.

Sarah Keller is a single mother living quietly in Oklahoma with her five-year-old daughter, Zoe; her job is to hunt down people who are trying to avoid arrest and bring them to justice. But when a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER, Sarah's life as she knows it explodes in a heartbeat because medical tests show that she isn't Zoe's mother and the lie she has been living all these years is suddenly all too obvious. Who were Zoe's parents? Why has Sarah concealed the truth? And how will she and Zoe stay off the grid when the cops, the FBI and a sinister religious cult are all hunting them down . . . for very different reasons? 
 
'Stephen King is absolutely right. M. G. Gardiner is an astonishing writer . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' Tess Gerritsen

M.G. Gardiner

One of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. The Burning Mind should go to the top of your 'to be read' pile

Gardiner's strengths are working better than ever here - characters as real as your friends, and a plot as real as your nightmares

I need to tell you about Meg Gardiner, and if you love great thrillers, you'll want to listen. The next suspense superstar ... As good as Michael Connelly

Harper Flynn nearly died when a pair of gunmen attacked the L.A. club where she was working. A year on, Harper is trying to rebuild her life - and failing. 
 
Because not only is she convinced there was a third gunman who escaped, but she also believes that he is targeting the survivors. 
 
The only person who believes her is Sherriff Deputy Aiden Garrison, who saved her life that night. But Harper's only ally has a shocking secret of his own - one that makes him suspicious and highly volatile...

M.G. Gardiner

Praise for The Burning Mind

One of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. The Burning Mind should go to the top of your 'to be read' pile

Gardiner's strengths are working better than ever here - characters as real as your friends, and a plot as real as your nightmares

I need to tell you about Meg Gardiner, and if you love great thrillers, you'll want to listen. The next suspense superstar ... As good as Michael Connelly

One of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. The Burning Mind should go to the top of your 'to be read' pile

Gardiner's strengths are working better than ever here - characters as real as your friends, and a plot as real as your nightmares

I need to tell you about Meg Gardiner, and if you love great thrillers, you'll want to listen. The next suspense superstar ... As good as Michael Connelly

One of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. The Burning Mind should go to the top of your 'to be read' pile

Gardiner's strengths are working better than ever here - characters as real as your friends, and a plot as real as your nightmares

I need to tell you about Meg Gardiner, and if you love great thrillers, you'll want to listen. The next suspense superstar ... As good as Michael Connelly

Books by M.G. Gardiner

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