Ballantine Books
September 2008
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Featuring: Portia Cahill; James Cannon
448 pages ISBN: 0345506111 EAN: 9780345506115 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
WHO SPEAKS FOR THE DEAD WHEN THEY SCREAM BLOODY
MURDER?
Sheldon Woods kidnapped and killed an untold
number of boys, then escaped the death penalty by making a
plea bargain for multiple life sentences in exchange for
revealing the whereabouts of some of his victims. More than
a decade later, the full extent of his crimes is still
unknown, and many of the dead have never been accounted for.
But Lisa Walsh is certain her brother Christopher was one of
them, and to honor her mother’s dying wish, she’s on a
mission to learn the truth and recover the little boy’s
remains. FBI agent Portia Cahill, tasked with confronting
the caged killer, is obliged to play his mind games to get
what she’s after, but she ends up with more than she
bargained for when the remains of another boy’s body are
discovered.
Determined to ID the mystery child,
Portia reluctantly teams with James Cannon, the attorney who
once defended Woods. But chasing a killer’s grisly legacy,
and the bones of the forgotten dead, will lead them into the
lethal orbit of a monster who’s seeding the graves of the
past with a fresh wave of innocent victims.