The Cipher, Isabella Maldonado
The Cipher, Isabella Maldonado
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The Cipher

Author: Isabella Maldonado

Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2020

Synopsis

An Amazon Charts bestseller.To a cunning serial killer, she was the one that got away. Until now…FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera escaped a serial killer’s trap at sixteen. Years later, when she’s jumped in a Virginia park, a video of the attack goes viral. Legions of new fans are not the only ones impressed with her fighting skills. The man who abducted her eleven years ago is watching. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation…but his games are just beginning. And he’s using the internet to invite the public to play along.His coded riddles may have made him a depraved social media superstar—an enigmatic cyber-ghost dubbed “the Cipher”—but to Nina he’s a monster who preys on the vulnerable. Partnered with the FBI’s preeminent mind hunter, Dr. Jeffrey Wade, who is haunted by his own past, Nina tracks the predator across the country. Clue by clue, victim by victim, Nina races to stop a deadly killer while the world watches.

About Isabella Maldonado

Award-winning author Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and badge in real life before writing crime fiction. A graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico and the first Latina in her department to attain the rank of captain, she served as a patrol officer, hostage negotiator, spokesperson, recruit instructor, patrol supervisor, gang council coordinator, and district station commander. Her final assignment was as the commander of the Special Investigations and Forensics Division before retiring after twenty-two years on the force. Ms. Maldonado is a member of the FBI National Academy Associates, Fairfax County Police Association, International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, International Society of Latino Authors, and Sisters in Crime, where she served as president of the Phoenix Metro Chapter in 2015 and sat on the board until 2019. The author of the Detective Cruz series, she lives in the Phoenix area with her family. For more information, visit www.isabellamaldonado.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina on August 16, 2021

The Silence of the Lambs and The Lost Symbol got together and had a little book baby named The Cipher. Let's unwrap this bundle of joy. A young female FBI agent works with an older male colleague from the Behavior Analysis Unit to track a serial killer by solving the clues he leaves behind while zig......more

Goodreads review by Jen on November 12, 2020

If you're a fan of Police Procedurals and FBI Behavioral Analysis you will want to read this one! There are just so many things in the mix here that I'm a fan of! "The Cipher" is Book One of a new series by Isabella Maldonado and I will definitely be reading the next one when it comes out! I'm not su......more

Goodreads review by Carol on November 08, 2021

I didn’t find the story itself particularly credible. We are expected to believe that a woman who’s suffered serious abuse at the hands of a killer becomes an FBI agent herself and is assigned to another murder that allegedly was committed by the person who tried to kill her? Can we say “vigilante”......more

Quotes

“The survivor of a vicious crime confronts her fears in a hunt for a serial killer…forensic analysis, violent action, and a tough heroine who stands up to the last man on earth she wants to see again.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[In] this riveting series launch from Maldonado…the frequent plot twists will keep readers guessing to the end, and Maldonado draws on her 22 years in law enforcement to add realism. Determined to overcome her painful past, the admirable Nina has enough depth to sustain a long-running series.” —Publishers Weekly

“A heart-pounding novel from page one, The Cipher checks all the boxes for a top-notch thriller: sharp plotting, big stakes, and characters—good and bad and everywhere in between—that are so richly drawn you’ll swear you’ve met them. I read this in one sitting and I guarantee you will too. Oh, another promise: You’ll absolutely love the Warrior Girl!” —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author

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