Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find... He's handsome and talented, rich and famous - a notorious charmer with the power to seduce...and the will to destroy. No one can fathom what he's about to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordan have hunted, none has been so ruthless, so terrifyingly clever, and so brilliantly elusive as the killer who's hunting them...Review"Fine, intelligent, gripping." - The New York Times Book Review"A superb psychological thriller." - Cosmopolitan"Shocking...stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good." - Ruth RendellAbout the AuthorVal McDermid was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer living in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her novel, A Place of Execution, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.READER BIOAfter reading Classics at London University, Michael Tudor Barnes trained at RADA and for five years was a member of the National Theatre Company. He has also worked with the RSC, has played leading roles both home and abroad and has over 600 radio broadcasts to his credit. Television work includes The Bill and Softly, Softly; but he is probably best known to viewers as Willy Roper in EastEnders.