In this brilliantly chilling follow-up to The Thief of All Light , veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the past--and the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth .
But when Detective Carrie Santero begins digging up new evidence, she discovers some answers come with shattering consequences..
For three agonizing decades, Jacob Rein has yearned for the truth.
The lives of everyone involved would never be the same.
Another committed suicide.
A police officer was murdered.
Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing.
Nobody trusts an animal that tries to eat its own kind.
Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will lead her to a decades-old cold case--and the darkest secrets of her mentor\'s youth.
Through her mentor, Jacob Rein--a seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brink--she was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country.
Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer.
There\'s a thousand scavengers in these woods. at any cost. . .
In this brilliantly chilling follow-up to The Thief of All Light , veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the past--and the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth