Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to
his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative -- and not a
moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local
soup kitchen volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killer's
work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers
shares the details of two other killings with eerie similarities to
Sam's case: The bodies in all three cases have been carefully posed. And
when a fourth victim is discovered, the two investigators realize
they're pursuing the same twisted quarry. Local parish priest Kevin
Burch, Mercy Street founder Robert Magellan's cousin, recognizes the
posings for what they are: The killer is staging the church's seven Acts
of Mercy ("Feed the hungry, clothe the naked . . .") with the bodies of
his victims. But as Sam and Fiona race to prevent the final three
murders, taunting messages from their target lead to the most chilling
realization of all.