PROXIMITY

He does not start with the guilty. He starts with the person they love.

Phoenix, 2005. Two brothers are shot seconds apart in a motel parking lot on East Van Buren. The first is a dealer. The second dies while kneeling over his brother's body. Detective Isaac Alvarez studies the scene and reaches a disturbing conclusion. The pause between the shots was deliberate. Someone wanted a man to understand the cost of loss before he died.

Then it happens again. An innocent woman is targeted because of someone close to her, and Isaac begins to see the pattern. Each case traces back to a person the courts failed to hold accountable, but the dead are not the ones who escaped justice. The shooter is patient, disciplined, and experienced with long range precision. As public opinion begins to turn him into a hero, Isaac sees a calculated campaign built on grief.

To stop the killings, Isaac must understand the mind behind them. But the closer he gets, the more difficult it becomes to ignore what the two men share, and how little distance may separate justice from revenge.

PROXIMITY is the first novel in the Detective Isaac Alvarez series, a psychological police procedural and Arizona crime thriller about grief, justice, family, and the choices that define a good man.