Firewalk is a modern-day supernatural crime thriller set in a fictional west coast city, from the New York Times-bestselling author and co-creator of the comic book-turned hit TV show iZombie.
Izzie Lefevre was the newest investigator for the FBI’s Behavioral
Analysis Unit when she first came to Recondito, a coastal city that’s
been shrouded in mystery and legend for centuries. Local law enforcement had requested the Bureau’s assistance in hunting a sword-wielding
serial killer who’d left a dozen mutilated bodies in his wake. Patrick
Tevake was a local homicide detective assigned to the taskforce, and
together he and Izzie managed to track down and stop the killer before
he claimed another victim.
Five years later, Izzie and Patrick remain haunted by what the killer said before he fell in a hail of gunfire. Izzie’s ancestors were
“mambos,” voodoo priestesses who claimed to communicate with the dead
and protect the faithful from evil spirits. Patrick’s Polynesian great
uncle told stories of Recondito’s supernatural menaces that lurk in
flame and shadow. The killer’s last words have brought up a past both
Izzie and Patrick thought they’d long since left behind, and neither has been able to shake the feeling that their case was never completely
solved.
So when Patrick, now working with the vice squad to investigate a
dangerous new street drug, discovers a connection between the street
drug and the serial killer’s victims, he realizes that their instincts
were right: the threat is far from over. Reunited again, he and Izzie
will discover that Recondito is a city of dark secrets, and their own
pasts may be the key to unlocking them.
