Beyond the Crooked Mile — R.J. Pineiro

Technothriller writer R.J. Pineiro breaks away with a novel of domestic suspense in the tradition of Harlan Coben and James Patterson. David Wallace runs a shelter for battered women in Austin, Texas as his way to make amends for a tragic mistake he made seven years ago that resulted in the deaths of his wife and infant son. As David struggles to put the past behind him, he receives a note from a beautiful stranger claiming that things were not as they seemed seven years ago. Obsessed with learning the truth--and the identify of this stranger--even at the expense of reopening old wounds and putting his own life at risk, David is pulled into a world of disturbing sexual abuse, domestic violence, police deception, and corporate cover-ups, where unspeakable horror hides beneath the veneer of our modern society.