A Tooth for a Tooth

Retirement can be murder.

Saul Maçon used to kill people for a living.

Now, under the considerably less alarming name of Lucien Mallet, he spends his days scraping tartar from Labradoodles' teeth in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. It isn't glamorous, but after faking his own death and surviving a prison inferno, boring suits him just fine.

Then residents of Covenant Cove, an exclusive retirement community, begin turning up dead.

The murders are meticulous. The weapon is always the same-a feather pillow. Every crime scene is staged with chilling precision.

To the local police, it's an impossible mystery.

To Lucien, it's something else entirely.

He knows how killers think. He understands their patience, the mistakes they never make and the secrets they will kill to protect. Most of all, he knows that every new murder brings the investigation one step closer to the past he thought he'd buried forever.

Meanwhile, Marion Belle goes quietly about her days, attending coffee mornings, church services and community events with a pleasant smile. No one suspects that behind her grandmotherly charm lies a mind as disciplined as it is deadly.

Sometimes it takes a serial killer to catch a serial killer.

Darkly funny, sharply observed and packed with unforgettable characters, A Tooth for a Tooth: The Pillow Murders is a darkly comic, character-driven murder mystery of hidden identities, deadly secrets and murder behind manicured lawns, where retirement isn't nearly as peaceful as it seems.