The Dead (SIGNED)

Ed Fagan vanished five years ago, and the serial killer the press called the Night Hunter has been silent ever since. Then a Dublin newspaper receives a letter, apparently from Fagan, warning that more murders are coming. The city's police first treat it as the stunt of a crackpot, until the body of a sex worker named Mary Lynch is discovered and it becomes clear that a killer is free once again.

Saxon, a former FBI agent still troubled by what happened five years earlier, was researching a book about Fagan when he disappeared. She is as sure as she can be that the real culprit is someone else. Detective Chief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald and the rest of the Dublin Metropolitan Police regard her theory as a dead end, so Saxon must find a way to make them consider something other than the obvious answer.

Dublin is a city of shadows and secrets, and the path to the truth is never easy. When it finally surfaces, it is shocking enough to rattle even the most skilled detective into a fatal lapse of focus. Saxon understands that around a killer, carelessness is never a good idea.