Still Life Series

Victoria McPherson is a brilliant young FBI agent investigating a serial murder case in Chicago. The body count is now at five and she has no solid leads, a mountain of circumstantial evidence and a boss who's breathing down her neck. Upon reviewing an old case file, Victoria is shocked to find an astonishingly high number of similarities between a seventy-five year old case and the current string of killings...

FBI Agent Victoria McPherson is sent to Maine where Audrey Dunnigan's body has just been found. The modus operandi and the video sent to the police and press leave them in no doubt as to the killer's identity: the East Coast Killer has struck again! No clues are picked up during the autopsy, as the serial killer painstakingly washed the body. Once again, the killer has not committed any errors.

From her motel room, Victoria comes across a report by Paloma Hernandez, the journalist covering all the crimes bearing the East Coast Killer's signature. Hernandez has been highly critical of the FBI's and Victoria's lack of progress. That does not stop Hernandez from phoning and asking Victoria to meet her later that evening. Hernandez claims to have some so-called clues on the killer in her possession. Victoria flatly refuses. Just moments later, Paloma is kidnapped by the Killer…