By Gregg Olsen
"OLSEN WILL SCARE YOU--AND you are going to LOVE IT." --Lee Child
"YOU'LL SLEEP WITH THE lighting fixtures ON AFTER examining GREGG OLSEN." --Allison Brennan
A schoolgirl chanced on it on a nature hike. A severed human foot donning crimson nail polish. A ugly yet helpful clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a far darker trail--to a deadly psychopath whose powers of persuasion appear to have no finish. merely by means of teaming up with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark can Birdy desire to even the percentages in a dangerous video game. it is a fateful choice the killer wishes them to make. And it is the simply manner Birdy and Kendall can locate their method to a assassin who is able to kill back. . .
Praise for Gregg Olsen's novels
"WICKEDLY smart! surely TWISTED."--Lisa Gardner
"OLSEN WRITES RAPID-FIRE PAGE-TURNERS."--The Seattle instances
"GRABS YOU through THE THROAT."--Kay Hooper
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She placed a roll of paper towels at the desk and took one other slice of pizza for herself. “Never stated it'd be fancy here,” she acknowledged. “If you sought after complete carrier you’d have stayed with one other favourite aunt. ” there has been no favourite aunt. No different aunt interval. Elan smiled and persevered to consume. “Hey, the police got here to college today,” he stated. “People have been speaking approximately that case you’re engaged on. you recognize, the only you won’t inform me something approximately? ” Birdy swallowed. “Yes, that one,” she stated. “What are they asserting? ” Elan glowered a bit, however it used to be a good-natured glower. “How come you get to invite me approximately it, yet I can’t ask you whatever? humans recognize you’re my aunt. they believe i may provide all of them the gory information about how that child acquired butchered out within the woods. Like was once it an ax or a machete? ” Birdy set down her pizza, her urge for food quelled via his insensitivity. He was once younger. He had much to benefit. He was once of that new release that didn’t see the horror at the back of the spatter. “Her identify was once Darby Moreau,” she acknowledged, conserving her voice even. “She wasn’t a few child who bought butchered. ” He regarded a bit embarrassed. She’d made her aspect. “I be aware of that,” he acknowledged. “I additionally be aware of her mother is a freak. and that i recognize a few stuff approximately her and our paintings instructor who’s been doing her. ” “Elan,” Birdy stated, resuming her pizza, “please don’t speak like that. ” His eyes met hers. “Like what? ” Birdy chosen one other slice, her 3rd. And convinced, she was once counting. commonly at this aspect, she’d have blotted the pepperoni with a serviette to avoid wasting energy, yet this pie used to be too chilly. She’d consume each fatty little bit of it. “Like what occurred is a few game and also you don’t remember the fact that we’re speaking approximately actual people,” she acknowledged. He pulled an errant piece of pepperoni from the field and glued it on his slice. “I didn’t suggest to be disrespectful or anything,” he acknowledged. “I was once simply repeating what I heard. The cop got here and children in artwork type beginning speaking in regards to the lady. ” He took one other chunk yet waited until eventually he’d swallowed prior to conversing back. Birdy doubted that he chewed it. She imagined the contents of his abdominal simply then, like she’d visible in different instances. It was once random, yet such things as that occurred. picking out the final meal of a child like him will be effortless. “About Darby, and that i idea probably if you happen to instructed me something,” he endured, “I’d be cooler. It isn’t effortless to begin over. ” “You aren’t beginning over,” she stated. “And you don’t want any cred. you're cool sufficient. ” “Why can’t you simply check with me approximately your paintings? ” Hadn’t that they had this dialog? She favored his curiosity, yet he didn’t appear to comprehend the explanations for the very desire for confidentiality in a legal case. It wasn’t a truth television convey. It was once genuine existence. “Because I’m a part of the felony justice procedure and we've got principles, protocol, strategy. the complete procedure relies on it. ” “Whatever,” he acknowledged. “I wager you don’t need to know what I heard? ” Birdy used to be , yet she performed it cool—his notice, no longer hers. “You can inform me or now not. ” “I select no longer to,” he acknowledged.