Palindrome

<p><strong>Finalist for the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel</strong></p><p> </p><p>Private Eye Frank Lamb's business is simple: He finds things. Be it the world's hottest pepper seed in a South American dictator's safe or a pair of Italian art forgers sipping Prosecco in a Miami hotel room he delivers the goods and collects his check never with a smile. Work is work and he doesn't let it get in the way of the life he's made for himself and his ten-year-old daughter Sadie. <br/><br/> But when a staggeringly beautiful woman offers him a small fortune to find a cassette tape curiosity gets the better of him. It contains she explains a recording her sister's kidnapper made of her last three minutes on Earth. She conveniently fails to mention the unsettling effects the tape is rumored to have on listeners. <br/><br/> Frank takes the case and enlists the help of reclusive tracker Courtney Lavagnino to pick up a trail that's been cold for five years. As their search leads them through a horrifying labyrinth of murder and madness it becomes clear they're chasing much more than a memento.</p>