Book summary

Returning home to a quiet desk job, former FBI agent Kate Conlan never anticipated having to track down one of the most disturbed criminals her town had ever seen. Nicknamed "the Cremator" by newspapers, this ruthless serial killer set his victims' corpses ablaze after strangling and deforming their bodies. Under pressure to find the killer by any means possible, Conlan focuses on the sole witness, a homeless woman who knows more than she is telling.

Media reviews

"This is the kind of detail-packed thriller that Patricia Cornwell might have written early in her career. Hoag, a former romance writer, gives us an appealing heroine in the form of Kate Conlan, a victims'-rights advocate assigned to help hunt down a serial killer--and what a twisted mother of a killer he turns out to be."