Gardner repeatedly ratchets up the tension while the strange relationship between the two mismatched siblings leads to a deadly climax. As the three women interact with one another, Shana appears to know more than she should, Adeline reveals less than she should, and a nervy killer taunts Warren. When a killer begins channeling Harry’s gruesome murder technique, Warren, who has been referred to Adeline for treatment of a debilitating injury suffered on the job, investigates. Forty years ago, Harry Day, about to be arrested for killing eight prostitutes, got his wife to slit his wrists. Warren, of Boston Homicide, tangles with a pair of sisters who put her pain in a whole new perspective. Shana heads to prison for life after killing a boy at age 14 and later murdering a fellow inmate as well as two corrections officers Adeline, born with CIP (congenital insensitivity to pain), becomes a successful pain therapist. Recovering from a nasty fall down a flight of stairs, Detective D.D. Four-year-old Shana and her nearly one-year-old sister, Adeline, take two very different life paths after the death of their father, serial killer Harry Day, in Thriller Award–winner Gardner’s absorbing seventh novel featuring Boston homicide detective D.D.
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