New York Times bestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns to the haunting Southern landscape he knows so well with this magnificent psychological thriller rich in forensic detail and penetrating insight into the nature of evil. Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. A world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, delving into the minds of rapists and murderers yet never allowing her own frightening past to creep into the foreground. Then one morning she's paralyzed by a panic attack at a grisly murder scene in New Orleans. When she retreats to her family's secluded antebellum estate in Mississippi, Cat is shocked to accidentally discover clues to the murder of her father decades ago.
