FBI agent Kate Donovan turns rogue after an undercover
mission goes wrong, ending with the double murder of her
partner Paige and her fiancé. Now Kate spends all her time
and uses her considerable computer skills tracking the
serial killer who murdered her friends. The killer, a man
known only to the authorities as Trask, specializes in live
webcasts, which he advertises as fantasy role-playing but
actually depict the rapes and murders of the young women
he's kidnapped.
Trask's latest victim is Lucy Kincaid, taken on the eve of
her high school graduation. Lucy's family pool their
resources and fly to her rescue. But the Kincaids only have
48 hours to find the sadist who's taken Lucy. After hearing
about Kate from former colleagues, they track her down and
enlist her services -- forcibly. Because force is the only
way Kate will help anyone take down Trask. Her plan for
five years has been to do the job herself.
Lucy's brother, Dillon Kincaid, heads the effort to find
his sister and bring her home. Dillon, a forensic
psychiatrist, is able to "get into the heads" of the
killers he tracks. He doesn't have the time he needs to
investigate Trask, so he has to rely on Kate's knowledge of
him. Even though Dillon's brother, Jack, describes Kate as
a "whack job," Dillon empathizes with the troubled former
agent and would like to draw her out and get to know her
better. If only they had the time.
What none of them realizes is that Trask's end game isn't
Lucy's murder. Kidnapping her was only a ploy to find Kate
and coax her to come to him, so he can finish the job he
started five years before. Kate is the one who got away and
Trask isn't about to let a woman get the best him. Trask
dreams of the day when he has Kate Donovan right where he
wants her -- under him, with his hands around her neck,
watching the light fade from her eyes as he squeezes the
life out of her.
FEAR NO EVIL is a taut, fast-paced thriller. Bad things
happen to good people and it keeps the plot moving and the
pages turning. Tortured heroine Kate is so far gone, she's
dancing on the edge. It takes sensitive (yet manly!) hero
Dillon to bring Kate back to herself. FEAR NO EVIL is the
final volume in Brennan's trilogy and Trask is the most
sadistic villain she's given us. A story guaranteed to send
shivers up your spine.
Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy
Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online
predator, she’s destined to die horribly–live on the
Internet–while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote
on the method of her slaughter. Her family’s only hope
rests with Kate Donovan, an FBI agent who took on the same
sadistic killer once before . . . and lost. Blamed for
another girl’s gruesome murder, Kate’s been fighting to
clear her name. But she agrees to join the hunt for Lucy–
and reluctantly steps back into her worst nightmare.
With time running out before the bloody webcast airs, Kate
teams up with forensic psychiatrist Dillon Kincaid to get
inside the head of her twisted quarry, zero in on his
chamber of horrors, and reach Lucy before grim history
repeats itself and another innocent’s brutal death goes
hideously live.