Mystery Book Club: The Cipher by Isabella Maldonado

Join us on the 3rd Wednesday of every month for Mystery Book Club. We read a mix of cozy mysteries, thrillers. Copies are available on a first come first served basis. 

Can't make to our evening discussion? Join us at the Weekes Branch Library on Thursday, October 17 at 11:30 am. 

If you attend a meeting, a copy of next month's title will be available to you for checkout. We have a limited amount of copies available. 

Digital copies can be found on Libby or hoopla or requested through LINK+, https://csul.iii.com/.

You can email Kavita at kavita.sagran@hayward-ca.gov to request a copy of the book.

The Cipher is book 1 of the Nina Guerrera series.

Description of book:

To a cunning serial killer, she was the one that got away. Until now…

FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera escaped a serial killer’s trap at sixteen. Years later, when she’s jumped in a Virginia park, a video of the attack goes viral. Legions of new fans are not the only ones impressed with her fighting skills. The man who abducted her eleven years ago is watching. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation…but his games are just beginning. And he’s using the internet to invite the public to play along.

His coded riddles may have made him a depraved social media superstar—an enigmatic cyber-ghost dubbed “the Cipher”—but to Nina he’s a monster who preys on the vulnerable. Partnered with the FBI’s preeminent mind hunter, Dr. Jeffrey Wade, who is haunted by his own past, Nina tracks the predator across the country. Clue by clue, victim by victim, Nina races to stop a deadly killer while the world watches.