The shot to the head didn't kill Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson.
But it will crack her psyche and take her to the very edge. In her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range severed the connection between Taylor's thoughts and speech. Effectively mute, there's no telling if her voice will ever come back.
Trapped in silence, she is surrounded by ghosts-of the past, of friendships and trusts lost...of a lost faith in herself and her motives that night. When Memphis Highsmythe offers Taylor his home in the Scottish Highlands to recuperate, her fiance can't refuse her excitement, no matter his distrust of the man. At first, Memphis's drafty and singularly romantic castle seems the perfect place for healing.
But shortly the house itself surrounds her like a menacing presence. As Taylor's sense of isolation and vulnerability grows, so too does her grip on reality. PTSD. Pills. Ghosts. Grudges. Someone or something is coming after Taylor. But is she being haunted by the dead...or hunted by the living?
Praise for J.T. Ellison"A terrific lead character, terrific suspense, terrific twists...a completely convincing debut." - Lee Child
"A taut, striking debut. Mystery fiction has a new name to watch." - John Connolly
The Taylor Jacksons series
1. All The Pretty Girls
2. 14
3. Judas Kiss
4. The Cold Room
5. The Immortals
6. So Close the Hand of Death
7. Where All the Dead Lie
- ISBN10 1299340474
- ISBN13 9781299340473
- Publish Date 1 January 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mira Books
- Format eBook
- Language English