The New York Times bestselling author of Firestorm, Iris Johansen, returns with a
psychological thriller so terrifying, so relentlessly paced, it won’t leave you time
to catch your breath before the next shock comes. A forensic sculptor is locked in
a deadly duel with a serial killer determined to destroy her-one life at a time.
Eve Duncan’s job is to put a face on the faceless victims of violent crimes. Her
work not only comforts their survivors-but helps catch their killers. But there is
another, more personal reason that Eve Duncan is driven to do the kind of work she
does-a dark nightmare from a past she can never bury. And as she works on the skull
of a newly discovered victim, that past is about to return all over again.
The victim
is a Jane Doe found murdered, her face erased beyond recognition. But whoever killed
her wasn’t just trying to hide her identity. The plan was far more horrifying. For
as the face forms under Eve’s skilled hands, she is about to get the shock of her
life. The victim is someone she knows all too well. Someone who isn’t dead. Yet.
Instantly Eve’s peaceful life is shattered. The sanctuary of the lakeside cottage
she shares with Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and their adopted daughter Jane has been
invaded by a killer who’s sent the grimmest of threats: the face of his next victim.
To stop him, Eve must put her own life in the balance and question everything and
everyone she trusts. Not even Quinn can go where Eve must go this time.
As the
trail of faceless bodies leads to a chilling revelation, Eve finds herself trying
to catch a master murderer whose grisly work is a testament to a mind warped by perversion
and revenge. Now she must pit her skills against his in a showdown where the stakes
are life itself-and where the unbearable cost of failure will make Eve’s own murder
seem like a mercy killing.
