Carmen Sanchez is a Department of Homeland Security investigator whose sister Selina is attacked. She takes leave from her job to investigate. She pulls in a college professor, Jake Heron who is an expert hacker, to help her find the attacker. Jake and Carmen have a history. Carmen and Salina have a history. The attacker turns out to be a serial killer with a fascination for spiders. All of this occurs in the first fifty pages of Fatal Intrusion.
Then we get into the gruesome, but somehow still repetitive, deaths. And detailed, extremely detailed, you might even say encyclopedic details about spiders. And cybersecurity or lack there of.
All the details unnecessarily drag the pace to a crawl in the middle two thirds of the book. I even got tired of skimming at somewhere near 60%. The last fifty pages were a thrill ride. However, it was a boring Wikipedia slog to get there. I love both of these authors separately but together? Not so much. 3 stars for Fatal Intrusion.
Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing me with an advanced review copy.