By-the-book forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and rogue BCA agent Van Reed must catch a cold-case killer whos returned to abduct a small towns children one by one in this heart-stopping novel from the Edgar Awardnominated author of Unspeakable Things.

In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today.

Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sisters abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alkus unsolved mass murder, he and cold case agent Evangeline Reed have no choice but to investigate.

The case grows impossibly darker as, one by one, the children of Alku begin disappearing. And Harry and Van cant shake the sensation that someone is watching every move they make.

As an elusive killers trail leads to a truth more sinister than either imagined, Harry knows theres only one way to crack this case: he must finally face the secrets of his own pasteven if doing so will cost him everything.