I liked this one too, but not quite as much. Rating between a 3 and 4 - After reading and thoroughly enjoying this author's recent book 'Find Her' I decided to go back to the first in the series. For a killer is loose who's woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone. What brings them together is a moment of violence-but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance.

Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous. a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he'd done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son's death. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. that's where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react.

Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle.

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