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 trueโbut 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 arenโt exactly Kimberlyโs specialty. The young agent is five months pregnantโshe has other things to worry about than an alleged lunatic who uses spiders to do his dirty work. But Kimberlyโs own mother and sister were victims of a serial killer. And now, without any bodies and with precious few clues, itโs all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder . . . or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened.
Kimberlyโs caught in a web more lethal than any spiderโs, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly sheโs trapped. What she doesnโt know is that sheโs closeโtoo closeโto a psychopath who makes womenโs nightmares come alive, and if he has his twisted way, it wonโt be long before itโs time for Kimberly to . . .
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