A Vince Tanaka

Three victims. Three days. Three years.

Some killers stop. Some disappear. The dangerous ones evolve.

Detective Vince Tanaka is ready to leave his NYPD career behind for a fresh start with the FBI and his family in San Diego. But when bodies begin appearing in churches across Manhattan—eyes removed and replaced with silver coins—Vince is pulled back into the cold case that's haunted him for three years: The Ritualist.

With only 48 hours before the killer's pattern suggests he'll vanish again, Vince must unravel the connection between seemingly random victims. But as he digs deeper, an unexpected link to incarcerated serial killer Richard Cartwright emerges, along with buried secrets from a long-forgotten psychiatric facility.

As the body count rises, Vince discovers the case is far more complex than anyone suspected. When the investigation takes a shocking personal turn, Vince must race to protect not only the next victim but also those closest to him.

In this pulse-pounding debut thriller, Adam Roach crafts a labyrinthine game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems, and the most dangerous threat might be the one Vince doesn't see coming.

Some demons can't be exorcised. Some nightmares follow you home.