From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann's
Heat 2--In this exhilarating thriller inspired by real-life serial
killer Ted Bundy, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a
charming, merciless serial killer.
In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One
vanishes from a movie theater. Another, from her car at a stoplight. A
mother is ripped from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI
agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral
Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads
outside Austin.
Caitlin's unit discovers the first victim's body in the woods, laid out
in a bloodstained white baby-doll nightgown. A second victim in a white
nightie lies deeper in the forest's darkness. Around the bodies,
Polaroid photos are stuck in the earth like headstones, picturing other
women with their wrists slashed. The women in the woods are not the
killer's first victims, nor are they likely to be his last.
To track the UNSUB, Caitlin must get inside his mind; he is a confident,
meticulous killer, capable of charming his victims until their guard is
down, snatching them in plain sight. He then plays out a twisted
fantasy--turning them into dolls for him to possess, control, and
ultimately destroy. Caitlin's profile leads the FBI to focus on one man:
a charismatic, successful professional who easily gains people's trust.
But can they apprehend him before it's too late? As Saturday night
approaches, Caitlin and the FBI enter a desperate game of cat and mouse,
racing to capture the cunning predator before he claims his next victim.
