Scheme

In this gripping short story by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, Detective Jake Sloan is on the trail of a poetry-obsessed serial bomber after an improvised explosive device is discovered outside a hospital. With limited resources at Middleton PD, Sloan enlists the help of English professor Ciara Hawkins to decipher a cryptic poem that appears alongside the bomb threats. As they race against time to unravel the clues, they uncover a chilling motive that complicates the case further.