"Phillips is Ireland's finest mystery writer." --San Diego Book Review
The critically acclaimed first novel in Louise Phillips's award-winning and internationally bestselling Kate Pearson thriller series. THE SERIAL KILLER

A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave - her body identically arranged. The hurt for the killer is on.

THE CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGIST

The police call in criminal psychologist, Kate Pearson, to get inside the mind of the murderer before he strikes again. But the more Kate discovers about the killings, the more it all feels terrifyingly familiar.

THE ACCUSED WOMAN

As the pressure to find the killer intensifies there's one vital connection to be made - Ellie Brady, a woman institutionalised fifteen years earlier for the murder of her daughter Amy. She stopped talking when everybody stopped listening.

But what connects the death of Amy Brady to the murdered schoolgirls? As Kate Pearson, begins to unravel the truth, danger is closer than she knows...