Long Shadows – Baldacci David (2023)

Long Shadows is the seventh Amos Decker thriller by internationally bestselling author David Baldacci. FBI agent Amos Decker, known as the Memory Man, investigates the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive gated community in Florida. Decker is in crisis following the suicide of a close friend and receiving a letter about a personal matter that could change his life forever. Working with a new partner, Frederica White, he must use all his special skills to solve the case. Judge Julia Cummins appeared to have no enemies, and there was no forced entry. Friends and neighbours heard nothing, while her distraught ex-husband Barry and teenage son Tyler both have strong alibis. Decker must discover why the judge needed a bodyguard and what the strange calling card left by the killer means. As the investigation deepens and the body count rises, Decker and White uncover a trail leading back to a past presidential campaign and an unsolved crime involving people at the highest level of power. Greed, deceit, deception and corruption lie at the heart of the case, and someone has decided that it is time for payback.