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At first, they struggle to escape. Then a torrent of blows rains down upon their bodies until their eyes cloud over in final agony. The killer shows no remorse - just a twisted need to witness each victim's last terrified moments. Public defender Rachel Wainwright is struggling to reopen a decades-old case, convinced that the wrong man is in prison. Homicide detective Deke Morgan doesn't want to agree. But if Rachel's hunch is correct, whoever fatally bludgeoned young, beautiful Annie Dawson 30 years ago could be the source of a new string of brutal slayings.

Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist’s fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back. Now a Philadelphia homicide detective, Joan’s trying to put her traumas to rest. It’s not easy. Elijah Weston, the classmate who torched her house, is out of prison and returning to Missoula. Gut instinct tells Joan he’ll strike again. To stop him, she must return to the past as well. To face not only the man she fears but Detective Gideon Bailey, too. The man she loved and left behind.

Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Lee Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head. And Harvey has secrets to share - about bodies that were never found, and about the apprentice who is continuing his grisly work....

After seventeen years away, public defender Raine Hale returns to her family’s crumbling Virginia estate when her estranged cousin Maria is hospitalized following a near-fatal cyanide poisoning. As sole beneficiary of Hale House and guardian to Maria’s five-year-old daughter, Molly, Raine confronts a troubling legacy she vowed never to revisit—and is thrust into a deadly mystery. But she can’t trust anyone.

קורבנות טראומה אינם דבר חדש עבור החוקרת הרפואית פיית' מקינטייר, אבל המקרה החדש שהגיע אליה שונה. מייסי קרואו, סוכנת אף־בי־איי ששוכבת בבית החולים מחוסרת הכרה לאחר תאונת פגע וברח, דומה לה דמיון מטלטל. כשפיית' רואה את מייסי לראשונה היא מרגישה כאילו היא מביטה במראה. אבל איך זה ייתכן? מה עשתה מייסי בסמטה אפלה באמצע הלילה, באותו היום שבו שלחה לפיית' הודעה? פיית' ידעה תמיד שהיא מאומצת, אבל עכשיו היא מגלה שנסיבות הולדתה אפופות בסודות, ושהיא בעצם אינה יודעת דבר.