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A Measure of Darkness

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Deputy coroner Clay Edison goes to extreme lengths for a forgotten Jane Doe in the new thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King).

“As for the keen sense of drama, it must be a genetic trait. . . . The Kellermans show compassion for the survivors, including conscientious officials like Edison.”—The New York Times Book Review
Former star basketball player Clay Edison is busy. He’s solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. Plus his brother’s fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications.
Then the phone rings in the dead of night.
A wild party in a gentrifying East Bay neighborhood. A heated argument that spills into the street. Gunshots. Chaos.
For Clay and his fellow coroners, it’s the start of a long night and the first of many to come. The victims keep piling up. What begins as a community tragedy soon becomes lurid fodder for social media.
Then the smoke clears and the real mystery emerges—one victim’s death doesn’t match the others. Brutalized and abandoned, stripped of ID, and left to die: She is Jane Doe, a human question mark. And it falls to Clay to give her a name and a voice.
Haunted by the cruelty of her death, he embarks upon a journey into the bizarre, entering a hidden world where innocence and perversity meet and mingle. There, his relentless pursuit of the truth opens the gateway to a dark and baffling past—and brings him right into the line of fire.
Praise for A Measure of Darkness

“Edison is an interesting protagonist, a good man for whom finding the truth is more important than anything else, including his own safety. He’s gentle and strong, compassionate and ruthless, methodical and impulsive. A strong sequel to Crime Scene that will leave readers wanting to see more of Edison.”Booklist
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 28, 2018
      In bestseller Kellerman and son Jesse’s plodding sequel to 2017’s Crime Scene, Oakland, Calif., coroner’s deputy Clay Edison responds to a multiple shooting, apparently sparked by a dispute about noise from a large party. The victims include a six-year-old boy, who was struck by a stray bullet while sleeping in his bed, and a female pedestrian, seemingly accidentally dragged to her death by a car. Edison diligently reviews the evidence and interviews witnesses as he tries to reconstruct what led to the gunfire and the vehicular homicide, but the complexity of the case confuses more than it intrigues. The plot, unlike in the senior Kellerman’s best Alex Delaware books, never gathers much steam, and the characterizations, including Clay’s relationship with his troubled brother, fall short of the standard set in Edgar-finalist Jesse’s better work. Staccato prose doesn’t help (“A bicycle, I’d lose him. I walked faster. The phone shook”). Few readers will welcome a third outing from Clay. Agent: Barney Karpfinger, Karpfinger Agency.

    • Booklist

      August 1, 2018
      It's nice to see Jonathan Kellerman, who's had a long career as a best-selling novelist, teaming up with his son, Jesse. Their novels are different from Jonathan's solo efforts: there's a different flavor, a different style of characterization. In their new collaboration, a follow-up to Crime Scene (2017), Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is determined to discover the identity of a woman whose body was found at a chaotic crime scene involving multiple shooting victims. The woman doesn't appear to have belonged at the party that led to the shootings, and she died by strangulation, not gunshot. Who is Jane Doe, and why was she killed? Edison is an interesting protagonist, a good man for whom finding the truth is more important than anything else, including his own safety. He's gentle and strong, compassionate and ruthless, methodical and impulsive. A strong sequel to Crime Scene that will leave readers wanting to see more of Edison.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

    • Library Journal

      February 15, 2018

      When a West Oakland party gets violent, Alameda County coroner's deputy Clay Edison gets a call. The bad news: several people are dead. The really bad news: there's a victim no one can identify, and she's been strangled instead of shot. From those redoubtable uber-best-selling authors, father and son.

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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