Former FBI forensic psychologist Robert Payne takes on a case that the previous investigator had died in the middle of, run down by a hit and run driver. The woman says the wrong person, a teenager, was arrested.The case is to find out who killed her twelve year old daughter, one of a number of young girls found with broken necks and mutilate bodies. The woman had received a letter from the man a couple of days after his death detailing his investigation to that point. Three suspects had been developed.That's all Payne had to go when he started.The case gets more complex when he gets pulled into looking for a kidnapped eight year old girl that may be connected. Needing to keep the police oblivious, it isn't easy as there is a woman police chief he's becoming close to(and vice versa).Sprinkled throughout are chapters told from the viewpoint of this unknown killer talking about his days in prison and the escape planned with one of those women enamored of convicts.The author keeps you guessing all the way through, throwing in several plot twists that turns the case around, right up to the bloody finale.
