In this smart, relevant, unputdownable
psychological thriller, a woman cop is on the hunt for a killer while battling
violent secrets of her own.
“My
name is Nina Karim. I am a single thirty-one-year-old woman who likes cats, Ryan
Reynolds movies, beautiful sunsets, walking on a wintry beach holding hands
with a tall, caring, lightly bearded third-wave feminist.
Yeah, right.”
Nina is a tough Queens detective with a series of cold case
homicides on her desk – men whose widows had the same alibi: they were living
in Artemis, a battered women’s shelter, when their husbands were killed.
Nina goes undercover into Artemis. Though she is playing the
victim, she’s anything but. Nina knows about violence and the bullies who rely
on it because she’s experienced it in her own life.
In this heart-pounding thriller Nina confronts the violence
of her own past in Artemis where she finds solidarity with a community of women
who deal with abusive and lethal men in their own way.
For the
women living in Artemis there is no absolute moral compass, there is the law
and there is survival.  And, for Nina,
who became a cop so she could find the man who murdered her father, there is
only revenge.