This is a sequel to the book I recently posted about, The Cipher, by Isabella Maldonado, which was the first in her "Nina Guerrera" series. The ad hoc team from the earlier book--comprised of 2 profilers, a techie and field agent Nina-- has now tentatively become a fixture at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. When two geographically distant triple murders get connected through the ViCAP system and their boss wants them to figure out if this is a serial killer at work. What they discover is that someone has been committing murders, staging them to look like murder suicides, every Leap Day for the last 28 years. The murders always involve a family with a new baby girl, and always point to the mother as the murderer. The killer has been so successful, that many of the big city homicide units didn't realize that all three were victims. The team's task is to figure out what motivates the killer to try and narrow down the search. In the process, Nina will discover that was never the throw away baby she grew up thinking she was. But the discovery will put her directly in the cross-hairs of the killer. Publisher' Weekly calls this sequel "captivating." Kirkus describes the storyline as "A horrifying crime, cat-and-mouse detection, aha moments, and extended suspense, more or less in that order."
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