Violent Crimes

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>VIOLENT CRIMES 2: BLACK BUTTERFLY - COMING 10.31.26</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Preorder now.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Saturday before Thanksgiving eighteen-year-old former valedictorian Evelyn Armstrong comes home from her freshman year at Virginia to her small moneyed hometown of Bronxville New York. By Tuesday morning she is found in the woods of Twin Lakes with her throat cut and her body broken.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Two men go looking for whoever did it. Neither one is built to stop.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>James Prince is the son of an FBI legend and a profiler of extraordinary almost clairvoyant instinct who arrives from Manhattan with a divorce in his rearview a young daughter he adores and a drinking problem he pretends is managed. He is brilliant and self-destructive in equal measure and Bronxville will test the limits of both.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Richard Armstrong is a decorated Navy SEAL and Evelyn's father a man whose capacity for violence was once sanctioned by his country and is now answerable to nothing but grief. While Prince builds a case Richard dismantles the town moving through its manicured streets with the quiet systematic lethality of a man who has already decided how this ends.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As a historic blizzard closes in and the body count climbs these lives collide in a violent reckoning with grief evil and the terrible things good men become when the world takes what they love most.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The debut novel by Jack Chase. First released Memorial Day 2025.</span></p><p></p>