From the breakthrough international bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice, a breathtaking, page-turning novel about a disgraced female detective's fight for redemption And survival Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer But her greatest victory suddenly became a nightmare Fifteen years after those catastrophic, career-ending events, a copycat killer has taken up the Nine Elms mantle, continuing the ghastly work of his idol Enlisting her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, Kate draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills as an investigator to catch a new monster But there's much more than her reputation on the line: Kate was the original killer's intended fifth victim and his successor means to finish the job