The 13th adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller and Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller.
'Gruesome but utterly riveting - and all the more so for being at least partly true' Daily Mail
'Dark, chilling and full of clever little plot kinks designed to send the reader off on a wild goose chase - and succeeding' Crime Fiction Lover
'Prepare to be terrified' Crime Monthly
It should have been a routine autopsy on a straightforward hit-and-run.
It should have been an open and shut case.
It shouldn't have led them to a serial killer - or put one of their own in danger.
When the LA Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Carolyn Hove, discovers some inconsistencies in a routine autopsy, she calls in Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Not only was the victim not killed in a hit-and-run, but Dr Hove also found signs that they'd been severely tortured prior to death.
Their investigation leads Hunter and his partner, Carlos Garcia, on the trail of a twisted and clever killer who hides in plain sight. A serial killer no one even knew existed - a killer who has always operated under the radar, expertly disguising every gruesome murder as an accidental death.
But how do you investigate a murder when you have no victims? How do you catch a killer who leaves behind no crime scene? How do you stop a ghost who no one can prove even exists?
'Gruesome but utterly riveting - and all the more so for being at least partly true' Daily Mail
'Dark, chilling and full of clever little plot kinks designed to send the reader off on a wild goose chase - and succeeding' Crime Fiction Lover
'Prepare to be terrified' Crime Monthly
It should have been a routine autopsy on a straightforward hit-and-run.
It should have been an open and shut case.
It shouldn't have led them to a serial killer - or put one of their own in danger.
When the LA Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Carolyn Hove, discovers some inconsistencies in a routine autopsy, she calls in Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Not only was the victim not killed in a hit-and-run, but Dr Hove also found signs that they'd been severely tortured prior to death.
Their investigation leads Hunter and his partner, Carlos Garcia, on the trail of a twisted and clever killer who hides in plain sight. A serial killer no one even knew existed - a killer who has always operated under the radar, expertly disguising every gruesome murder as an accidental death.
But how do you investigate a murder when you have no victims? How do you catch a killer who leaves behind no crime scene? How do you stop a ghost who no one can prove even exists?
'This is a chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffery Deaver class' Daily Mail
'Carter has a background in criminal psychology and the killers at the centre of his novels are all the more terrifying for it' Mail on Sunday
'Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless . . . I couldn't put it down' Crimesquad
'Punchy and fast paced' Sunday Mirror
'Carter has a background in criminal psychology and the killers at the centre of his novels are all the more terrifying for it' Mail on Sunday
'Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless . . . I couldn't put it down' Crimesquad
'Punchy and fast paced' Sunday Mirror