Maine Sunday Telegram #1 Bestseller * Winner of the Maine Literary
Award for Best Crime Fiction * Winner of the Killer Nashville Silver
Falchion for Best Investigator
The latest gripping installment of the award-winning, #1 bestselling
Detective Byron mystery series: a grisly crime captivates Portland,
sending John Byron and his team on a wild chase to catch the killer
before it's too late
"These books are absolutely superb, beautifully plotted. I can't
recommend them highly enough." --Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling
co-author of the Pendergast series
Amid the dog days of summer, Detective Sergeant John Byron is called to
the scene of a horrific crime: a young woman's body, dismembered and
left in an abandoned Portland lumber yard. The killing shares striking
similarities with a spate of murders committed in Boston by a serial
killer known only as the Horseman.
As Byron's team investigates the case, they quickly push up against
powerful forces in town. But Byron will stop at nothing to find the
truth, not when there is a killer on the loose and everyone is a
suspect. Has the Horseman expanded his killing field? Is this the work
of an ingenious copycat--or is nothing what it seems? One thing is
certain: Byron must uncover the truth before the killer strikes again.