Young girls from well-to-do families are the targets of a
serial killer who dubs himself the School Girl Slayer.
While the media and law enforcement focus their efforts on
finding the man, copycat slayings are taking place -- the
victims are also young girls, but unknown and apparently
unmourned.
Detective Evan Crosby makes it his mission to find out
who's killing them, but he seems to find more questions
than clues. Annie McCall, a criminal profiler, does her
best to help her new love, Evan, work through the case
while undertaking a very personal investigation of her own.
Her former fiancé, Dylan Shields, was ambushed in a
stakeout gone bad two years ago, and his killer never
found. With Evan's encouragement and the support of Dylan's
family, most of whom are also involved in law enforcement,
Annie hopes she can find some closure and move on with
Evan. The two cases seem unrelated on the surface, but may
have more in common than either Annie or Evan suspects.
The final book in Stewart's "Dead" series (DEAD WRONG, DEAD
CERTAIN, DEAD EVEN) will not disappoint her fans. Once
again, she provides more than one mystery plot, weaving
threads in and out to create a complex tapestry that will
keep readers guessing. Besides answering the questions
surrounding Dylan Shields' death, which was a major factor
in the first book, we get a chance to catch up on what some
of the characters from previous stories are doing now. Many
readers will also be able to identify with Evan and Annie's
struggle to balance their professional and personal
lives.
Two years ago, a major FBI undercover drug deal suddenly
went south - and special agent Dylan Shields went down in a
hail of bullets. When the dust cleared, his fellow agent
(and fiance) Anne Marie McCall was left alone with too many
unanswered questions and nothing to do but hit the job as
hard as she could to dull the pain. Only now is she
beginning to ease up on her punishing routine as a Bureau
profiler and starting to let some light in again. And,
Detective Evan Crosby had a lot to do with drawing Annie
back into life, and she's not about to let her chance at
happiness with him slip away.
But before she can embrace a bright new future, she must
grapple with the dangerous past whose demons of doubt and
suspicion won't let her sleep at night... and whose dead
will never rest in peace until someone digs up the truth and
deals out the payback. That means going places where no one
- including the FBI - wants Annie to be and cutting through
a minefield of smoke and mirrors, politics and intimidation,
dirty tricks and deadly threats, in order to make a cold
case hot enough to get the right people sweating. The harder
Annie squeezes, the more blood, lies, and betrayal she
wrings out... and the closer she comes to connecting a
face to the trigger finger that blew away her dreams - and
Dylan Shields. What she doesn't know is that the killer
she's closing in on is looking for closure too. The kind
that only Annie's death can bring.
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