A measure of darkness - Jonathan Kellerman

Deputy coroner Clay Edison goes to extreme lengths for a forgotten Jane Doe in the new thriller from a father-son team, the follow-up to the first installment of this series, the New York Times-bestselling Crime Scene.

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Deputy coroner Clay Edison goes to extreme lengths for a forgotten Jane Doe in the new thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write brilliant, page-turning fiction (Stephen King).

As for the keen sense of drama, it must be a genetic trait.

The Kellermans show compassion for the survivors, including conscientious officials like Edison.

-- The New York Times Book Review Former star basketball player Clay Edison is busy.

He's solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process.

Things are getting serious with his girlfriend.

Plus his brother's fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications.

Then the phone rings in the dead of night.

A wild party in a gentrifying East Bay neighborhood.

A heated argument that spills into the street.

Gunshots.

Chaos.

For Clay and his fellow coroners, it's the start of a long night and the first of many to come.

The victims keep piling up.

What begins as a community tragedy soon becomes lurid fodder for social media.

Then the smoke clears and the real mystery emerges--one victim's death doesn't match the others.

Brutalized and abandoned, stripped of ID, and left to die: She is Jane Doe, a human question mark.

And it falls to Clay to give her a name and a voice.

Haunted by the cruelty of her death, he embarks upon a journey into the bizarre, entering a hidden world where innocence and perversity meet and mingle.

There, his relentless pursuit of the truth opens the gateway to a dark and baffling past--and brings him right into the line of fire.

Praise for A Measure of Darkness Edison is an interesting protagonist, a good man for whom finding the truth is more important than anything else, including his own safety.

He's gentle and strong, compassionate and ruthless, methodical and impulsive.

A strong sequel to Crime Scene that will leave readers wanting to see more of Edison.

-- Booklist.