ONE STEP AHEAD

by David Carr

Jay Vincent has worked his way up from traffic cop to homicide detective on the NYPD. He's been breaking in a new, younger partner, Marty Walsh, for over a year. They work the second shift together on cases Jay could close in his sleep, until he finds himself plunged into the middle of the toughest one in his career. Stopping a serial killer that has the entire city on edge wondering who the next victim will be.Jay is thrust into the spotlight when the killer selects him as his favorite link to the police department. Jay straddles a thin line between investigator and suspect as the department uncovers evidence linking him to each murder. All eyes are on Jay as he tries to untangle the cryptic clues left by the killer.The killer wants Jay to be the one that finds him. Not so he can be stopped, but so he can make the detective his final victim. Every clue brings Jay closer to ending the case or his own life.

282 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2007

About the author

David Carr was a journalist who wrote for The New York Times. His peers often praised him for his humility and candor.

Carr overcame an addiction to cocaine and wrote about his experiences as an addict in The Night of the Gun. The New Yorker called it "bracingly honest memoir. In sharp and sometimes poetic prose, the author takes a detailed inventory of his years of drug addiction."

In February, 2015 he collapsed in the New York Times newsroom and was pronounced dead shortly after. He was married to Jill Carr and had three children.