The first Grant County novel from the No 1 Bestseller The sleepy town of Heartsdale Georgia is jolted into panic when Sara Linton paediatrician & medical examiner finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner As well as being viciously raped Sibyl has been cut two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver
- Sara's ex-husband
- is in charge of the investigation & when a second victim is found crucified only a few days later both Jeffrey & Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator A violent serial killer