A fiendish killer. A clue in code. Officer Emma Thorne’s first big case
may just be her last . . .
Officer Emma Thorne has her hands full. The mayor makes her the new chief of police—a position previously held by her deceased father. Her clinically depressed husband Will is missing, presumed dead. And her old flame from high school has turned up as a corpse.
One dead body would be bad enough, but more quickly follow. The cops dub the killer “Mr. Sharpie,” named for the strange messages written in marker on the victims’ remains. Are the scrawled numbers and letters clues to the killer’s identity? Or merely the deranged behavior of a sick mind? The pressure is on Emma to find out. . .
When a cryptic text message leads Emma to suspect her husband is still alive, the case quickly becomes personal. And as more killings rock her small Connecticut town, Emma realizes the grisly bodies all have one thing in common: they’re all connected to her. Leaving Emma to wonder . . . will she become a suspect in this gruesome series of murders?
Or the next victim . . .