Night of the Jaguar

— Michael Gruber’s —like his earlier novels featuring Miami detective Jimmy Paz ( )—transforms the conventional thriller into something extraordinary, taking the crime novel to a place it has never gone before. Combining a grisly murder investigation with chilling supernatural elements and provocative thought, is a bravura display of the originality and artistry that has won Gruber the title, “the Stephen King of crime fiction” while inspiring the to name the Jimmy Paz trilogy, “among the essential novels of recent years.”