"As I read Eric Rickstad's latest, The Names of Dead Girls, I felt
myself constantly wanting to skip ahead -- anxious, desperate, to find
out what was going to happen...You're in the hands of one of the best in
the business, at the very peak of his form. " -- Michael Harvey, author
of Brighton
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad
delivers another Canaan Crime novel and features once again detectives
Frank Rath and Sonja Test as they track a depraved killer through rural
Vermont.
Every murder tells a story. Some stories never end . . .
In a remote northern Vermont town, college student Rachel Rath is being
watched. She can feel the stranger's eyes on her, relentless and
possessive. And she's sure the man watching her is the same man who
killed her mother and father years ago: Ned Preacher, a serial rapist
and murderer who gamed the system to get a light sentence. Now, he's
free.
Detective Frank Rath adopted Rachel, his niece, after the shocking
murder of her parents when she was a baby. Ever since, Rath's tried to
protect her from the true story of her parents' deaths. But now Preacher
is calling Rath to torment him. He's threatening Rachel and plotting
cruelties for her, of the flesh and of the mind*.* When other girls are
found brutally murdered, and a woman goes missing, Rath and Detective
Sonja Test must untangle the threads that tie these new crimes and some
long-ago nightmares together. Soon they will learn that the truth is
more perverse than anyone could guess, rife with secrets, cruel desires,
and warped, deadly loyalty.
Mesmerizing, startling, and intricately plotted, The Names of Dead
Girls builds relentlessly on its spellbinding premise, luring readers
into its dark and macabre mystery, right to its shocking end.
