In the follow-up to bestselling psychological thriller The Night Bird , a serial killer mistakenly set free becomes a city's worst nightmare--and a detective's deadliest challenge. Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sister's killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about Cutter and knows more about him than anyone. And she's terrified. Because for four years, Cutter has been nursing revenge day after stolen day. Staying ahead of the game of a killer who's determined to strike again is not going to be easy. Not when Frost is battling his own demons. Not when the game is becoming so personal. And not when the killer's next move is unlike anything Frost expected.
Frost is faced with damaging new evidence that will set Cutter, a serial killer free (his sister Katie's killer) implicating one of his close friends in the process. Turning in the evidence sets the killer free and Frost has his work cut out for him to get Cutter convicted again. His own family and the victim's families are upset with him creating a rift between Frost & his brother Duane. Duane is seeing Tabby who was best friends with one of the victims and complicates things for Frost with their uneasy attraction. Journalist Eden Shay has studied and followed Cutter from the start and is just coming off of her own published story of her attack that was similar to the serial killers when she offers all of her information to Frost as long as she can tag along and embed herself in the investigation. Frost doesn't trust the journalist but there's a pull of attraction that starts to cloud judgements. A shocking murder happens and Frost has to prove Cutter is responsible while also being taunted by him at the same time. Delving deeper into the past, there are some things that still don't make sense of Katie's death and trying to tie all of the victims together at long last brings Frost, Cutter, Eden, and Tabby on a collision course with disaster and death. An explosive outcome with surprises galore.
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