Inherit Evil
Some genes you don’t want passed down
They had no criminal records. No apparent motives. Nothing to suggest they were capable of murder…then came their twenty-fifth birthdays.
Now, as investigators struggle to explain a series of seemingly unconnected killings, forensic psychologist Nadine Dixon believes she knows what links the perpetrators. She has spent her career pursuing a controversial theory: that the impulse to kill can be inherited. And if she’s right, the next murderer may already be among us.
With another deadly birthday approaching, Nadine races to identify four strangers bound by a hidden genetic legacy, one that was introduced to the world twenty-five years ago at a local fertility clinic by an anonymous sperm donor. Finding the four genetically linked strangers is only the beginning. How do you stop someone who hasn’t yet committed a crime, but might be destined to kill?
As Nadine’s investigation deepens, she uncovers evidence of something far more terrifying than inherited violence: a discovery that could vindicate the research that made her career, and expose a conspiracy reaching far beyond anything she imagined.
“Inherit Evil is a brilliant and original concept with jaw-dropping cinematic action and a relentless, propulsive beat!”
Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone and Animorphs series