A monster was luring a string of young Canberra girls into their clutches and then savagely beating them to death. As a senior profiler with the Australian Federal Police, he’d been asked to put together a profile of the perpetrator, but try as he might, today his mind wouldn’t stay focused. It might have had something to do with the stupid argument he’d had with his wife, Ellie, that morning or the fact that all three of his young children had been up half the night ill with a virus, but the sense of foreboding had been with him since lunchtime and no matter how hard he tried, he’d been unable to shake it. Giving in to the urge to call his twin, he picked up the phone and dialed Riley’s number. It seemed to ring forever before it was eventually answered. “Hey, Clay, how are you?” Clayton frowned at Riley’s subdued tone. “Not bad, big brother. For a moment there, I didn’t think you were going to answer.” He stretched out in his chair and stacked his boots on his desk.
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