Antonia Scott returns in the explosive climax in this sequel to the international bestselling book and streaming series, Red Queen.
Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. She's the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders and behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes, those that are beyond the skills of the regular police forces.
But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. Across Europe, its agents are murdering each other and cases from the past, long believed resolved, are rearing their deadly heads again. At the center of it is the mysterious Mr. White, who has been weaving a web around Antonia for a very long time. He is as smart and capable as her but, unlike her, he's a psychotic killer who has isolated Antonia Scott. Jon Gutierrez, Antonia's protector and the only person she trusts, has been kidnapped. Antonia's husband has been killed and her remaining family is in hiding. With Jon's life at stake, Mr. White gives her a seemingly innocuous challenge: solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr. White's game, but can even Antonia win a game when she can only see part of the board?
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- ISBN: 9781250853721
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Starred review from March 1, 2025
G�mez-Jurado's two previous Antonia Scott novels are immensely popular and inspired Red Queen, a top Amazon streaming series. This is the final volume. Red Queen is an elite European Union organization devoted to foiling master criminals. Antonia, with an IQ of 242 and "the savage screech of monkeys in the deepest recesses of her mind" due to a tortured past, is their legendary crime solver. When her partner, Jon Guti�rrez, is kidnapped, then returned to her with a bomb surgically implanted in his body, she is tasked by the villainous Mr. White to solve three mysteries in rapid succession to save him. The reader must chase madly after her on a corpse-strewn path through Madrid. New crises and issues from the past are tangled together in a dark and compelling narrative. The author injects just enough humor through the bantering between Antonia and Jon and adds diverting material to balance out a harrowing tale, such as the Kyrgyz word karışkırkira, which translates as "the wolf disguised as a rocking chair you've been sitting on for ages without noticing it"--that is, the realization that what you are looking for has been right under your nose all the time, Thanks to G�mez-Jurado for bringing Antonia to life in a trilogy now satisfactorily completed.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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