Desperate People Do Desperate Things - How far would you go to save your child?
No Life Until Death is a terrifying, psychological suspense thriller by retired homicide detective and forensic coroner, now investigative crime writer, Garry Rodgers.
Outwardly, Inspector Sharlene Bate of I-HIT, Vancouver's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, has her life back on track. Shining career. About to remarry. And a healthy, thirteen-year-old daughter named Emma.
Inwardly? Sharlene Bate knows different.
In Palo Alto, California, Abra and Darren Playfair's middle-class world is imploding. Their thirteen-year-old daughter, Molly, is dying from Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome—aHUS—now in end-stage renal failure. Her kidneys must be replaced.
Molly Playfair and Emma Bate have something else in common besides age—an AB Positive blood-type—one of the rarest on earth. Only matching organs will save Molly's life, forcing the Playfairs to hire unscrupulous scalpels in the Philippines and buy her a transplant through the underground world of human organ trafficking.
When Inspector Bate investigates a body found butchered and robbed of its organs, she's dragged into a ring of black-market harvesters operating in Vancouver and shipping parts to Manila—internationally targeting those with rare blood. Oblivious to desperate people doing desperate things, Sharlene Bate battles personal blackness while the traffickers stalk Emma.
Time runs out for Molly and Emma as Sharlene Bate and the Playfairs desperately fight to keep their daughters alive. One must die so the other can live. For the girls...there's no life until death.
How far would you go to save your child?
What readers say about No Life Until Death:
"This "cranked-up" second book following on the heels of the novel, No Witnesses to Nothing; finds Inspector Sharlene Bate of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, involved in the most gruesome, dire, and terrifying case of her career. The author skillfully navigates you through a gamut of emotions. I found myself holding my breath, cussing, and even weeping. The dialogue is realistic, the story - alarming (I look at people sideways now), and the action - gripping. Do NOT pass up this book – you will be shocked at the lengths people will go to in the name of greed, love, and camaraderie."
"As a fan of police procedural stories about murder, kidnapping, and serial killers, No Life Until Death kept me reading non-stop. This book is so real you'd never know it was crime fiction."
"I think Garry Rodgers is slated to be one of the best crime writers of our time. No Life Until Death proves it."
"Rodgers weaves his experiences as a police officer, his skills as a storyteller, and his commitment to his craft as a writer into a compelling and frightening story. His writing talent opens the door into the unseen brutality visited by humans on their fellow beings."
"I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down."
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