Weighing

The heart is weighed against a feather. If it is heavier, it is devoured.Adam Rourke is a quiet man with careful hands, a museum conservator who has spent eleven weeks restoring an ancient Egyptian papyrus showing the judgment of the dead. Then, one night in the basement lab, the papyrus speaks to him. The voice calls itself Anpu, guardian of the scales. And it shows Adam something no one else can see: the people whose hearts are heavy.Soon the bodies begin to appear. Each one is laid out facing west, toward the land of the dead. Each one holds a feather.Detective Inspector Naledi Okafor doesn't believe in gods, but she believes in patterns. This killer isn't angry and he doesn't want fame. He is doing a job. And the closer she gets to him, the closer the case drags her back to Canal Street, where nine years ago she made a choice she has never told anyone about.Catching Adam Rourke was supposed to end it. It was only the beginning.The Weighing is a dark psychological thriller about guilt, judgment and the weight we carry, for readers who like their killers unsettlingly human and their endings hard to forget.