Memory Man by David Baldacci Digest & Review David Baldacci returns with an intriguing book about Amos Decker, a man blessed with a perfect memory. He works as a detective but his life takes a sudden U-turn when he returns home one night to find his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law brutally murdered. Grieving, Amos leaves his job and becomes a loner until one day, over a year after the fatal incident, a man turns himself in for the murder of his...

"Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes–obscure bible verses, odd symbols–have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex’s sister and her family. It’s a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been...

"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....

"When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count—from violent...

"In Redemption, Amos Decker and Alex Jamison returned to Burlington, Ohio, Decker's hometown. While visiting his family, suddenly a strange man came to him. It turned out that he was Meryl Hawkins, the first murderer he had incarcerated when he had just been promoted to homicide detective. Thirteen years have passed since he was sent to prison, Hawkins is now suffering from cancer and does not have long to live. But he went to Decker to ask him to...