Two deaths from unexplained cardiac device failure. One victim, threatened before her death. The family of the other, taunted afterwards. Negligence? Coincidence? Or something far worse? The devices’ Minnesota-based manufacturer, Voyageur Cardiac Systems (VCS), is blind-sided by the mysterious calamity, as it also faces a leak of patient data, mounting financial losses, and a blackmail threat against CEO Stephen Hartsburg.

A collective of five extraordinary individuals join forces to investigate the VCS disaster, including confident, no-nonsense aircraft mechanic Sierra Bauer and her partner, Detective Quinn Moore, and Matt Lanier, a classical musician and action guy. Both have witnessed device-related deaths. Joining them are Pen Wilkinson, a sassy, whip-smart paraplegic attorney, along with Louise (“Weezy”) Napolitani, computer guru and hacker extraordinaire, both hired by CEO Hartsburg but wary of their employer’s secrets. Complicating the group’s efforts is charming, slippery attorney Henri Hawke, an international fixer secretly hired by Hartsburg. The collective presses ahead against violent opposition, racing against time to thwart a plot to take over VCS, weaponize its products, and settle some scores.

The Kill Code Collective is the exciting creation of the five members of Midwest Mystery Works, uniting their signature characters in a high-stakes battle against a deadly enemy, backed by hijacked technology.

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Disgraced former FBI agent Kevin Arneson once hunted the world’s most dangerous terrorists. Now, back home in a tense, post-George Floyd Minneapolis, he takes on a new challenge when one of his closest friends receives serious death threats. The suspects: group of embittered, sex-starved, and sometimes violent young men called incels, who are terrorizing and then killing successful middle-aged women with no apparent connection to each other. Each victim inexplicably admits the killers into her home, despite widespread publicity and hysteria over the serial murders. Arneson, defying warnings from the FBI and police to stand down, recruits his friend Camryn Becket, an ex-lover and former deep-cover CIA agent, to help track the mystery assailants. As the death toll mounts, Arneson and Becket pursue the killers, burrowing through layers of deception. In a stunning climax, they uncover a monstrous scheme that goes beyond the murders, reaching back into their own troubled past.

“Fast-paced and twisty, Incel keeps you guessing.”

-St. Paul Pioneer Press

“Nail-biting, sleep-destroying, packed with twists and turns and tension – Brian Lutterman gives us a master class in the thriller.”

-Reedsy Reviews

“Best keep a catcher’s mitt at the ready; Lutterman’s twists and turns come at you with the speed of a fastball.”

-Jeffrey B. Burton, award-winning author of the Chicago K-9 Thrillers

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The Pen Wilkinson Series

“. . . one of the most intriguing new characters on the Minnesota crime scene.”   – – St. Paul Pioneer Press

                            

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