Queen of the Night

The New York Times bestselling author brings back the Walker family in a multilayered thriller in which murders past and present connect the lives of three families.
Every summer, in an event that is commemorated throughout the Tohono Oodham Nation, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But one couples intended celebration is shattered by gunfire, the sole witness to the bloodshed a little girl who has lost the only family shes ever known.
To her rescue come Dr. Lani Walker, who sees the trauma of her own childhood reflected in her young patient, and Dan Pardee, an Iraq war veteran and member of an unorthodox border patrol unit called the Shadow Wolves. Joined by Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows, they must keep the child safe while tracking down a ruthless killer.In a second case, retired homicide detective Brandon Walker is investigating the long unsolved murder of an Arizona State University coed. Now, after nearly half a century of silence, the one person who can shed light on that terrible incident is willing to talk. Meanwhile, Walkers wife, Diana Ladd, is reliving memories of a man whose death continues to haunt her.
As these crimes threaten to tear apart three separate families, the stories and traditions of the Tohono Oodham people remain just beneath the surface of the desert, providing illumination to events of both self-sacrifice and unspeakable evil.