Lisa Gardner, the New York Times bestselling author of Hide and Gone, draws us into the venomous mind games of her most terrifying killer yet.
Come into my parlor . . .
For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be trueβbut prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care.
Said the spider to the fly . . .
As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers arenβt exactly Kimberlyβs specialty. The young agent is five months pregnantβshe has other things to worry about than an alleged lunatic who uses spiders to do his dirty work. But Kimberlyβs own mother and sister were victims of a serial killer. And now, without any bodies and with precious few clues, itβs all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder . . . or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened.
Kimberlyβs caught in a web more lethal than any spiderβs, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly sheβs trapped. What she doesnβt know is that sheβs closeβtoo closeβto a psychopath who makes womenβs nightmares come alive, and if he has his twisted way, it wonβt be long before itβs time for Kimberly to . . .
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