White King

The last in the Antonia Scott trilogy offers more tightly plotted terror and a brilliant ending. Antonina has long graduated from the secret program, Red Queen, that made her already-high IQ into a finely tuned weapon. Red Queen (2023) and Black Wolf (2024) saw her working for Mentor at various underworld tasks that needed a cold genius, all the while waiting for her husband, Marcos, to wake from the coma caused during an attack by one of her enemies. Now she’s let Marcos go, but the dangerous work and attacks continue. Others in the Red Queen program are being targeted worldwide, and Antonia’s longtime and beloved sidekick, Jon Gutiérrez, has been targeted in a macabre way. The two face a terrifying countdown during which they must solve crime puzzles posed by the sinister Mr. White. There’s a lot going on here, and it’s best if readers have read the previous books; fans of the related Netflix series, Red Queen, will also be in line to get further inside the thinking of the show’s mysterious lead character and to know how her perilous odyssey ends.