The Bait

When a serial killer begins targeting those who profit from health insurance denials, Detective Elias Cross devises a reverse sting: he will pose as a terminal dialysis patient, the perfect victim. Infiltrating a world of claims algorithms and exhausted nurses, he meets Lena, a brilliant care coordinator with a razor-sharp wit and a suspicious proximity to the dead. As Elias falls deeper into love, the trap tightens—but the arithmetic of guilt will reveal that the deadliest wound was carved by his own hand. A tragic thriller in the scientific, relentlessly logical style of Andy Weir.