The sun is beginning to set as Margot watches the dive team haul the girls body from the lake, untangling the bag that had been used to weight it down among the rocks and the reeds. But it isnt the cool evening air that chills Margot to the bone as the bag is opened up. It is the glimpse of its contents. The old toys. Margots toys.
Detective Margot Phalen has spent years running from her fathers shadow and the awful truth of her own past as the daughter of a serial killer. But then she receives a message from him. Hes willing to share his darkest secret but only with her.
>Now, as she sits across from the empty chair waiting for Ed Finch to be led in, Margot closes her eyes and steels herself for what lies ahead. The key to solving one of Californias most infamous missing persons cases is here, in the one place she fears her fathers cell.
But she knows that the deeper she delves into her fathers twisted mind the greater the risk hell get under her skin. And retracing the missing girls last steps will mean questioning everything she thought she knew about herself and her family's dark history
.M.F