About the book
Maddy Reynolds can’t escape the world of criminals and harm’s way, no matter how hard she tries. After leaving her job in Upstate NY, the retired detective moves to the Adirondacks, but the humpback mountains and endless beauty can’t keep evil out.
A guy follows her at the airport, a car takes off after killing the man she’s meeting with for lunch, a woman calls, begging for help, and Maddy knows something’s amiss, but she doesn’t know what.
Powerful men who purchased sex slaves send Naomi White, Maddy’s long-time nemesis, for a ledger that contains their names. Naomi believes Maddy has it; if she doesn’t find it, she knows they’ll kill her.
Maddy must resurrect her detective skills and reach deep for the strength to endure a relentless onslaught by Naomi and others to survive the ordeal.
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Reviews of The Ledger
It's just a ledger. So why are people dying to find it?
During a conference in D.C., retired detective Maddy Reynolds receives a message from a mysterious caller who insists on meeting with her. Maddy, intrigued, follows through, but when she reaches the rendezvous site, she comes upon the wreck of a terrible accident. The victim: her would-be informer. Just what had he intended to tell her?
Back at her home in the Adirondacks, Maddy takes a terrified young woman under her wing, only to witness her death at the hands of a hitman. Maddy dispatches the killer but is left with the question: What ties these three people together?
The answer is a ledger book she discovers hidden inside her home; it contains a complete accounting of all the bigwigs who did business with a vicious human trafficking organization. People will kill to recover this, she thinks and realizes they already have. While trying to preserve the Ledger's vital information — and to avoid becoming the next target — Maddy finds herself pitted against a ruthless assassin, a relentless sociopath, and members of the Mob.
The Ledger weaves a tale of nonstop action and danger, all at a lightning pace. You'll read it more than once just to re-experience the excitement.
John Netti has thrilled readers once again with The Ledger, the continuing story of Maddy Reynolds in the aftermath of The Glades, wherein Maddy shut down a sex trafficking operation run by Avery Jordan in New York State's Adirondacks.
Jordan's record of the high level clients he served, his ledger, is the focus and the object of the novel. Once again, Netti has captured the danger, the fear, and the excitement of the criminal chase. Just as our hero Maddy is drawn into the search for the ledger by a newspaper headline, we are drawn into her adventure through our curiosity and concern.
After a seven-year respite from detective work, Maddy returns to The Glades and to the record of atrocities that took place there: “I can't believe I feel the need to do this again. It's who I am. I wish it could have been different, but it's the way it is.”
From here we join Maddy as she delves into the mystery of the ledger and the safety of Adam, her boyfriend. As we move from Syracuse to San Antonio to Washington with Maddy, we meet new characters and revisit characters we know from The Glades, most notably, the albino Naomi White, Jordan's evil partner who is willing to kill to keep the ledger; but also FBI Special Agent Hanna Bates who is as intent as Maddy to find it.
Once again, Netti has woven compelling characters, old and new, into a tightly woven mystery and our favorite detective into a can't-put-down story.
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