Hawkins, suffering from cancer, said that he has been given “compassionate release” - in other words, the system doesn’t want to pay for his medical expenses. Only the mother, not at home at the time, lived. About a dozen years ago, Decker and his then partner, Mary Lancaster, found evidence to convict Hawkins of the murder of four people, including two men, one of them a father, and his two children. “Redemption,” fifth in the series, takes place in the Buckeye State, specifically in the fictional town of Burlington, which bears similarities to Youngstown, Middletown or some other midsize Ohio city.ĭecker has returned to Burlington, his hometown, where, before he joined the FBI, he worked as a homicide detective and where his wife and daughter were murdered a number of years ago at their home.Īt the cemetery, where he mourns his family, he is approached by a gaunt man who says his name is Meryl Hawkins. In the newest novel in the series, Ohioans get another local bonus. Fans of David Baldacci’s Memory Man thriller series know that the protagonist, big and burly Amos Decker, is a former Ohio State University football player now committed to solving crimes for the FBI.
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