What starts out as a seemingly ordinary murder
investigation for London Detective Tom Thorne soon
escalates into a series of linked killings as more bodies
turn up with a mysterious piece of evidence on the bodies.
Fifteen years ago, Raymond Garvey brutally murdered seven
women. He was apprehended, convicted and subsequently died
of a brain tumor while in prison. Now, three years after
his death, someone is killing the offspring of his victims,
leaving pieces of the x-ray of his tumor clutched in their
hands. Could it be that the heretofore unknown child of
Garvey is now killing the children of his father's victims?
After four murders, will Thorne be able to stop this
brilliantly evil monster before he kills the remaining
three relatives on the list? The culmination of the case is
not what Thorne expected and appalling to everyone working
the complicated case.
Even though readers know who is doing the killings, his
actual identity and the events leading up to apprehending
him is shocking. This crime thriller will keep readers
totally riveted, turning pages long into the night to reach
the explosive ending.
A chilling, relentlessly paced thriller of an evil that has
crossed generations, and only Tom Thorne can stop it. From
the author Lee Child has called "the new wave
leader" of crime fiction.
Night and day, country music lover Detective Tom Thorne is
on call to solve the most difficult crimes. It's a schedule
that has pushed his fragile relationship with his
girlfriend to the breaking point. In an attempt to avoid
becoming like the Hank Williams song, "A Stranger in the
Night," Thorne eagerly takes charge of what seems like, for
once, an ordinary domestic murder. But when a mysterious
sliver of bloodstained X-ray that was found clutched in the
victim's fist is replicated at other crime scenes around
the city, it becomes clear that the past is coming back to
haunt the city of London.
Detective Thorne realizes that a killer is targeting the
children of victims of an infamous serial killer from years
before. Before everyone on the list is killed, Thorne must
stop the most twisted killer he has ever hunted.
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