NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A superior crime novel."--The
Washington Post
Ansley Park is one of Atlanta's most upscale neighborhoods--but in one
gleaming mansion, in a teenager's lavish bedroom, a girl has been
savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered
glass, having killed her daughter's attacker with her bare hands.
Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is one of
the first on the scene. Trent soon sees something that the Atlanta cops
are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic
evidence, and in the eyes of the stunned mother.
When another teenage girl goes missing, Trent knows that this case,
which started in the best of homes, is about to cut quick and deep
through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons
emerge with a vengeance.