Matt McBride remembers the first victim. He was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the popular, pretty teenager was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens and the horror haunts his memory still. Although Matt had hardly known the girl, he has long felt guilty at not having been able somehow to prevent the atrocity. Now another attractive young woman has disappeared. Matt knew this victim, too. Just possibly he knew her more intimately than he can admit. By degrees Matt becomes obsessed with a guilt he can neither comprehend nor allay. The fabric of his seemingly happy marriage begins to unravel and his increasingly erratic behaviour heightens police suspicions ...
- ISBN10 075284265X
- ISBN13 9780752842653
- Publish Date 1 May 2003 (first published 16 May 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion mass market paperback
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English