Praise:

“It’s superb. Extremely rich and complex, endlessly compelling and humane—and the sections of darkness and psychosis are as good as I’ve ever read. Chris DiLeo is a remarkable writer, with a clear ability to evoke character, conjure dread — and to do whatever it is that drives the reader to keep turning the pages, one by one, and faster and faster.” —Michael Marshall, author of THE STRAW MEN and KILLER MOVE

Detailed Description:

When her husband dies in a car crash, Brielle Heart, 35, is given a sealed envelope with a letter from her husband that warns: It was not an accident. Be careful.

Enter James Hunter, former FBI agent and serial killer profiler, who believes Bri’s husband was involved in a worldwide criminal network. Even worse, Hunter believes Bri’s husband was somehow connected to a serial killer Hunter has pursued for years.

After she is attacked in her home, and now fearing for her life, Bri teams up with Hunter to unravel her husband’s secrets. Every discovery—a safe-deposit box key, a mysterious photo from college, an unknown phone with strange text messages, a black paper heart, and even anagrammatic clues from her own subconscious where she has always been the best puzzle solver—leads to more questions.

These questions lead to murders. When people close to her start dying, Bri grows desperate to unravel the mystery and not be the next victim.

From a suburban town in New York to a swamp in Florida, Bri and Hunter track killers, as they are in turn stalked, and the truths they discover will change everything Bri has ever believed about her husband and herself.

Combining the mystery elements and characterization of a Dennis Lehane or Michael Koryta novel with the creepy touch of Thomas Harris’s and Gillian Flynn’s works, DARK HEART explores treacherous deceit, violence, and love, where the strongest heart is often as dark as it is virtuous.