โ Scribed by Bernard Schaffer
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In this brilliantly chilling follow-up to The Thief of All Light , veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the past--and the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth . . . at any cost.
_"There's a thousand scavengers in these woods."
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Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer. Through her mentor, Jacob Rein--a seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brink--she was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country. Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will lead her to a decades-old cold case--and the darkest secrets of her mentor's youth.
_"Nobody trusts an animal that tries to eat its own kind."
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Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing. A police officer was murdered. Another committed suicide. The lives of everyone...
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