A shocking murder rocks a small seaside community...Newly minted special agent, Patterson Blake, fresh out of Quantico, hasn’t seen much action since arriving at the FBI’s New York Field Office weeks before. In fact, she’s beginning to think her life will be nothing but routine inquiries and boring paperwork.Until she receives a call late one night with an unexpected assignment. A man has been brutally murdered. Bludgeoned to death on the stage of a community theater in the idyllic resort town of Montauk.Now she must team up with an experienced special agent to investigate a disturbing crime that has left an entire community on edge.As the rookie agent and her partner dig deeper into the horrific killing, they will uncover a web of deceit and betrayal that will leave them baffled. And put their very lives in danger.Patterson Blake is about to discover that the FBI is anything but boring…This book is a prequel to the Patterson Blake Mystery Thriller Series but can be read as a standalone. The first book in the series, Sister Where Are You, is available in paperback now.If you like Catherine Coulter, James Patterson, David Baldacci, J.D. Robb, Karen Slaughter, or Mary Burton, you will love Patterson Blake.