New York Instances bestselling author J.A. Jance results with her “persuasive…satisfying” (USA TODAY) third novel in the gripping suspense series featuring ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds.

With his hand trapped in the door of the speeding car, a guy struggles to stay upright as he’s dragged along a deserted stretch of San Juan Road in Phoenix’s South Mountain Preserve. It’s the perfect place to drive a guy to his grave-literally. Starting with a crime so gruesome actually prowling coyotes keep about Hands of Evil their distance from the remains, a killer begins crisscrossing the Southwest on a spree of grisly murders.

A hundred miles apart, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The news-casting work she once happy in is definitely gone-and so may be the philandering husband she liked and believed she knew. Whenever a relation who provided Ali a nice scholarship decades previous all of a sudden asks her for a gathering, Ali miracles what it can mean. Before she can fulfill her attention, though, Ali receives another startling call: a friend’s teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help. But in doing this, she unknowingly starts a quest that will reveal a dangerous ring of secrets, at the guts of which stand two undiscriminating killers.

Hand of Evil is Jance at her best, weaving a masterful tale of suspense that travels over generations, exposing two very different women using the same horrifying secret. Will Ali become a victim herself, or will she escape from a lethal deceit that no amount of security-financial or emotional-can cover up?