Eight years ago, psychologist, Alex Delaware evaluated two teenage boys charged with the murder of Kristal Malley. Now, one of the killers is out of prison and wants to meet up with Alex. Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis mean to find out. To do so, they will follow a trail of blood that will lead them to the heart of murderous betrayal.

A disturbing story of hidden evil and a race against time

When private investigator Carlotta Carlyle learns that Paolina, the teenaged little sister she's been mentoring for years, has gone missing, she immediately starts combing the streets of Boston to find her. Paolina's indifferent mother, Marta, insists that the girl has run away but as days pass without word, Carlotta suspects something sinister.

Called in to evaluate an actress accused - along with her boyfriend - of staging her own abduction, psychologist Alex Delaware is indifferent when the case seems to go nowhere. But then the girl is murdered, and a script takes a unexpected turn, Dylan Meserve, the victim's boyfriend, has also disappeared. Is Dylan a killer, or another victim?

In an unfamiliar world divided mercilessly into killers and victims, Pete Decker must decide which he is in this dramatic fourteenth thriller of the series

An astonishing literary debut, this collection of mature and intricate stories introduces a powerful new voice in fiction.