The really bright spot is Agent Fredericka White, a black FBI agent, assigned to be Decker’s partner. Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner—Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White—and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present . Amos Decker, meet your new partner, Special Agent Frederica White,” said John Talbott in a voice that sounded like a game show host introducing a new prize. While the bodyguard was found shot, the judge was brutally stabbed, raising the possibility of two separate killers and motives.

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Long Shadows is a 2022 American crime thriller written by David Baldacci and published by the Grand Central Publishing. He leaned against the creaky headboard, as though using the wood to fortify his own spine in dealing with this unexpected development. With all this in mind he is being sent to Florida and his usual partner in crime Alex Jamison has been transferred, he now has to deal with another partner Frederica White “aka Freddie” which means change which he hates. I’ve read all of the Amos Decker books to date and this is the first one that I’ve finished feeling a little flat and underwhelmed. Have you provided the list of guests and residents who entered here over the last twenty-four hours?He quickly finds other suspects, including a disturbed ex-husband and a jealous former boyfriend who both had personal motivations for murdering her. Below is an excerpt from Long Shadows , the upcoming thriller in David Baldacci’s Memory Man series. For an author that produces three books this year, he consistently delivers intricate plotting and pacing. It doesn’t take long for those they seek interviews with to suddenly disappear and before they know it, another murder occurs under their watch.

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The seventh novel in this series is possibly the best one featuring Amos Decker yet, shaking things up and assembling the pieces anew. There came another lengthy pause where all Decker could hear was the woman’s breaths and then a sob that was so dry and drawn out it sounded like she was strangling. Long Shadows, the seventh book in David Baldacci’s Memory Man series, starts with a traumatic loss for FBI consultant Amos Decker.The case - a judge and her bodyguard murdered together - seems simple at first, but Decker and White quickly realise that nothing is as simple as it seems as they get drawn into a web of intrigues spanning the whole of Florida and going back over generations. The new outing begins with Decker experiencing some really bad news about his previous police partner from his prior life as a cop.

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The plot is relatively linear, but with sub-branches and tendrils to keep track of, it suits reading in larger sections. He glanced once at the trash can where the destroyed letter rested and then grabbed his car keys and walked out the door. Years ago Amos Decker had once come within a centimeter’s width of a trigger pull of shooting himself in the mouth and ending his life. The book starts out with some reflection of people who have been in Deckers life along with a little drama.His changing circumstances sap his energies, and he has to work really hard to motivate himself in the most complex, dangerous and twisted of investigations. Sandy suddenly caught sight of Decker, broke free from her startled father’s grip, and ran over to him. Although I’ve read a good number of Baldacci books (15 so far) I’ve never read any of his books in the Amos Decker series. And Decker always answered as he was about to now, though it was not easy to form the words this time. The FBI have now partnered him with the ambitious, double black belt Frederica 'Freddie' White, a guilt ridden single mother who has herself lost a son.

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He sat there as his little room was lit by the electric blue of a death that had touched him from nearly a thousand miles distant.

It depended largely on confronting a person with a theory, gauge their reaction, threaten with some kind of exposure if they didn’t provide the information they were seeking and then move on to the next person.