Tule Mystery
The Mind Hunter Series, Book 2
Release Date:

Oct 12, 2026

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The Final Second

by

Jim De La Vega

At midnight the state of Georgia executed the Blood Smile Killer, who carved Grin into his victims. But a new act was already in motion…

Minutes after the execution, Sheriff Parker Chord receives a package. Inside: a mason jar containing the missing eye of the killer’s last victim—and a note accusing law enforcement of murder.

The case was closed. The killer is dead. Who’s finishing Grin’s work?

Desperate, Parker reaches out to the only person capable of understanding the mind behind the madness—his estranged sister, profiler Dr. Cassidy Chord.

A former army helicopter pilot, Cassie’s hunted killers before, but she’s late to the investigation, and Grin’s had years to prepare and perfect his revenge. While Cassie and Parker play cat and mouse chasing the twisted killer, one by one, the people involved in the original trial—a judge, an FBI agent, a retired sheriff, and a witness–are terrorized or killed.

Does Grin have a copycat? An accomplice? Or worse, did her brother help kill an innocent man leaving an apex predator free to target Cassie as his final victim?

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