Inmate 1577.

Inmate 1577

By Alan Jacobson

Crime fiction author Alan Jacobson spent seven years working alongside FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profilers before writing the popular Karen Vail series, and Inmate 1577. The fourth and latest installment in the series is a suspenseful thriller that straddles the fine line between fact and fiction.

A historical novel that follows two tracks, Inmate 1577 travels backwards in time to tell of the misfortunes of Walt MacNally, a young man whose wrongful arrest in the 1950s sparks a chain of events that can only be described as tragically cataclysmic to his and his young son's lives. Via a series of unusual murders of elderly women that have brought the tough-as-nails Karen Vail to San Francisco in the present day, the reader learns that the impact of MacNally's tragedy extends far beyond his own fate, ultimately bringing Vail and her task force to piece together a thrilling puzzle that starts and ends within the fabled confines of Alcatraz.

The thought-provoking thriller also explores a variety of timely topics...