Pattern Recognition (Pattern Crime Series, #2)
Description
The second body confirms what Elias feared. This isn't a single murder. It's a design.
Elias Crowe returns to the task force with one goal: break the sequence before it becomes a map the killer can complete. But the deeper he digs, the more the evidence fights back, witness accounts don't align, timelines shift, and the pattern he sees in the numbers is contradicted by what everyone "knows."
Then Elias finds something worse than a clue:
A correction.
Someone is adjusting the pattern in real time-learning from the investigation, anticipating the next move, and feeding the police exactly what they want to see.
As the pressure to arrest a suspect explodes, Elias must do the one thing that could get him sidelined: accuse the system itself of being part of the problem.
Because the pattern isn't just in the killings.
It's in who gets protected.
And who gets erased.
