Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester

In the secluded enclave of Bronxville, eighteen-year-old Evelyn Armstrong is found brutalized in the woods, her death exposing the fractures beneath a community's carefully tended facade. FBI profiler James Prince arrives from Manhattan carrying wreckage of his own: a marriage consumed by obsession, a career built on proximity to evil, and the growing suspicion he may be no different from those he hunts. From a decaying lodge on the outskirts of town, he follows a thread of evidence that begins to feel more and more meant for him alone. Meanwhile, Richard Armstrong, decorated Navy SEAL and grieving father, slips from public view. What returns in his place moves through Bronxville's manicured streets with lethal purpose, erasing anyone who might have been involved. As a historic blizzard closes in and the body count rises, Prince and Armstrong find themselves converging on a truth neither wants to face: that some reckonings transcend law and order, that evil often wears familiar faces, and that the line between hunter and hunted dissolves when you stare too long into the abyss. His first novel, published on Memorial Day, Violent Crimes announced Jack Chase (Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis) as an unyielding new voice in American literary crime fiction, unflinching in his layered, thoughtful portrait of how darkness survives not only in the space between justice and revenge, but in the quiet neighborhoods we call our own, where it spreads unseen.