خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب انگلیسی Nightshade 2025

In Nightshade by Michael Connelly, Detective Sergeant Stilwell has been reassigned from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide division to Catalina Island after a fallout involving departmental politics. Life on the island is quiet and slow until a corpse—wrapped in a sail bag and anchored in the harbor—is discovered. Stilwell is ordered to step back from the investigation but defies this when he suspects the mainland detectives are heading in the wrong direction.

As Stilwell digs deeper, he uncovers connections between the murder victim Leigh-Anne Moss, the elite Black Marlin Club, and corrupt power held by local figures including the mayor. He also becomes entangled in a second, seemingly unrelated case involving the killing of a buffalo, which turns out to tie back into wider corruption. Stil’s persistence reveals not just who is responsible for the death, but the breadth of deception and moral compromise beneath the island’s veneer of tranquility.