In September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother & seize her two sons, aged just two & three.
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Read my Michael Maloney. Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary
- a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth & innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires. When teenager Jennifer Maidment's murdered & mutilated body is discovered, it's not long before Tony & DCI Carol Jordan realise it's just the start of a brutal campaign that's targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Their chameleon-like killer is chatting with them online, pretending to share their interests & beliefs
- & then luring them to their deaths. But just when Tony should be at the heart of the hunt, he's pushed to the margins by Carol's cost-cutting boss & replaced by a dangerously inexperienced profiler. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts of his own past & desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal & professional satisfaction in his most nerve-shattering investigation yet.