Someone Who Can Help

In a city where murder is extinct, Julie Ruhl has finally achieved her dream of becoming an elite operator within the Homicide Prevention Center.Since the hotline's inception, operators have saved thousands of lives, including her own.Night after night she talks down would-be murderers: violent mothers, abusive husbands, angry teenagers. In return she is well compensated, as all operators are: luxury housing, the respect of the public, a level of control others can only dream of.And every week, operators field a call from Mr. Thursday, who describes, in grim detail, how he plans to murder a woman.The operators have always dismissed him as a prank. But when Julie answers Mr. Thursday's call, she realizes the hotline's tracking technology has been tampered with, and digs a little deeper.Mr. Thursday decides it's finally time to reveal the truth: he is no prank. "e;Someone Who Can Help grabbed me by the throat and didn't let go. Jenny Maloney has built a near-future world so believable it aches. The cracks spread so quietly, you don't realize how deep they run until it's too late."e; - Mary Stone, multi-million-copy bestselling author of crime fiction thrillers"e;A sharply written, dark tale about the power of human nature that had me on the edge of my seat until the final, devastating twist."e; -- Nicole Maggi, author of The National Park mystery series