An Active Shooter

Nora Kehoe, a Marine officer, returns from Afghanistan, where she has participated unknowingly in an atrocity. She pulls her life together, gets married, becomes the mother of three, and one Christmas, while at a local mall, her family is murdered along with more than a hundred other people by a person using an assault rifle. Nora feels that she has died and been reincarnated as a Fury. She proceeds to hunt down and kill all those she believes were complicit in putting that assault rifle in the hands of the killer: the gun store owner, the manufacturer, various politicians and lobbyists - a lot of people. While she does this, she visits the members of her old team in Afghanistan and tries to stay out of the grip of the FBI, which has a major task force assigned to hunt down the killer. On the FBI's task force is Nora's sister.

I wrote this book more quickly than I've ever written a novel, just under four months. I started it just after the Parkland school shootings. It struck after I finished it that I've spent a lot of my writing life describing violence done to and by women, and this will be the end of that.


Genre: Mystery