Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a mountain cabin where he opens a Pandora's box of horror that will haunt him to his dying day. Within hours, Vincent Cardoni - a brilliant surgeon with a history of violence and drug abuse - is arrested for a heinous crime. Facing a seemingly insurmountable wall of evidence, he turns to top criminal defense attorney Frank Jaffe - who, along with his ambitious daughter Amanda, must put on an inspired defense.
Amanda's first taste of criminal defense work raises moral questions she's loath to address. Is she defending an innocent man Or is she using her considerable skills to set a monster free Then Cardoni disappears under bizarre circumstances. Four years later, a second set of murders begins ... Has Cardoni resurfaced Is this a copy-cat killer Or has the real killer been someone else all along
Following a twisting trail of clues, including a harrowing diary that clinically records the killer's horrible deeds, Amanda and Bobby join the hunt - and become targets themselves of the twenty-first century's first genuinely monstrous psychopath.
Performed by Margaret Whitton
- ISBN10 0060746939
- ISBN13 9780060746933
- Publish Date 5 October 2004
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 15 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Audiobook
- Language English