"In a fast-paced race to catch a serial killer... I could not put the book down till the final word. Few books have scared me in the way that this series has. It is a nail-biting thriller!" — Kim Zoby, Readers' Favorite ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Wiltzen has hit a home run with his latest effort! The folksy small-town setting serves to disarm the reader as the tension begins to creep further and further to an intense crescendo." — Phillip Zozzaro, US Review of Books
"A haunting tale... Excellent!" — D. Donovan, Midwest Review of Books
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Mabel Davison runs a struggling motel and diner while raising two small boys in a mountain town where many hate her for what she's done.
Her search for missing girls had caused the demise of a local drug ring and the loss of gang money spent in town, and now she's shunned.
Desperate to rekindle fractured friendships, she is surprised one night by an ex-lover showing up on her porch, setting into motion events that could either unite her family or tear it apart.
Encouraged to restart her missing girls' cold case, she gets nowhere fast until she desperately questions a gang member she helped put in prison. His sordid tale is more lies and threats than truth. But the clues he gives point to her past, and she uncovers to her horror, a serial killer on the hunt.
And it could be a man she knows.
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Set in an atmospheric Pacific Northwest town in the 1980s, the third standalone installment of the thrilling Mabel Davison historical mystery series exposes the deep "layers of good and evil (that) lie beneath the surface of what seems to be a safe haven."
Everyone's favorite big-hearted, amateur sleuth is back.
