Description

The book opens with Detective Kim Mager reflecting on the 2016 case that would define her career. She introduces herself as a veteran detective in Ashland, Ohio, describing the challenges of being one of the few women in her department and how her upbringing prepared her for difficult police work. The narrative quickly shifts to a tense 911 call from a woman whispering that she has been abducted and is lying beside her sleeping captor, serial killer Shawn Grate. As officers race to locate her without alerting him, Mager foreshadows that this rescue will lead to an extraordinary series of interrogations in which she must gain the trust of a dangerous murderer and obtain confessions to multiple killings.