New York Instances bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man’s obsessive investigation into his sister’s death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.

He went looking for the truth. Right now a killer offers found him.

The more you know, the more there is to fear…

3 years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her youthful about Killing Period: A Thriller brother, Ben, could imagine nothing at all worse than hardly ever knowing what happened to her-until, for the first wedding anniversary of her death, he found her body within a shallow grave by the river’s advantage.

Ben, now seventeen, is relentlessly driven to get answers to Ellen’s homicide. Law enforcement believe she was the victim of a psychopath known as the Demon. But Ben’s analytical brain views patterns that don’t fit, tiny threads and signs that are derived from other unsolved murders he offers researched. Despite his all-consuming force for a real solution to the crime, Ben has hit a wall structure until he increases an unlikely ally – the school’s well-known new gal, Ro Majors, that has secrets of her personal. As your body count number rises, an image emerges of an adversary who’s as cunning and methodical and deadlyl. And uncovering the reality may possibly not be more than enough to maintain Ben, Ro and their loved ones safe from a twisted and fixated killer that has nothing left to reduce.