Rex Patrick: 3 books

When Wayne Kelly’s attorney wife doesn’t come home after drinks with coworkers, he calls the police. “What makes you think she’s been abducted?” the 911 operator asks. “Maybe she’s staying with friends.” He calls her coworkers and gets the cold shoulder. She comes home three days later,...

Firefighter-recruit Jordan Miller is less than a week away from graduating from the Baltimore Fire Academy. After six months of sweat and hard work, he’s called into the Captain’s office for the first time. He’s number one in his class, in academic and practical skills, but this can’t be good....

At age twenty-four, Evan Parker was on the way to becoming rich, by anyone’s standards. He just didn’t look it, act it, or feel it. He’d left the tiny town of Harmony, Maryland, for William and Mary, and grad school at the UVA, Wharton School of Business. He hadn’t seen Isaac Wells in four...