THE JOHN TESTAROSSA SERIES
Meet John Testarossa—
an LAPD detective with an NYPD attitude.
A good detective sees what's there. A great one sees what isn't.
John Testarossa has spent years chasing killers through the streets of Los Angeles. The dead don't surprise him anymore. People still do.
When a severed arm washes onto a Santa Monica beach, John and his partner, Alex Ortiz, are drawn into the world of college athletics, performance-enhancing drugs, and the dangerous secrets that fuel them.
Rage and revenge are poisons John Testarossa knows all too well. They shaped him as a boy and still define him as a man. He carries a dark secret that threatens every relationship he has.
It is in the beautiful Dr. Karen Gennaro—who has a few secrets of her own—that John finds a soft place to land, even as he knows all too well what falling in love with a cop can do to a woman.
What sustains John isn't the job. It's the bond he shares with his partners. When that bond is shattered by a senseless act of violence, his past and his hunger for vengeance threaten to destroy everything he's fought to protect.
Los Angeles has never looked darker.
4 DAYS
The body of a young woman is found in the marshes of L.A.’s Ballona Creek. As with most murders Detectives John Testarossa and Alex Ortiz are asked to solve, this one makes no sense.
When a second body is found, and then a third, the only thing the young victims have in common is that, as children, each went missing for four nightmarish days.
And then they were released. Alive.
More dead women turn up; the detectives must navigate some of the city’s darkest history while racing to save the next potential victim and get into the mind of a killer who keeps coming back for more.
As the truth comes together, Testarossa collides with an evil like he has never known and risks losing all he holds dear in the process, including the one woman he can't seem to forget.