En Nashville, una chica aparece muerta a manos de un sádico asesino en serie. La teniente de Homicidios Taylor Jackson y su amante, John Baldwin, experto en perfiles criminales del FBI, se encuentran unidos en la investigación y en la persecución del sanguinario asesino. El Estrangulador del Sur está abriéndose camino a golpe de asesinato por el sureste del país, y dejando un truculento recuerdo en cada uno de los escenarios de sus crímenes: la mano cercenada de su víctima anterior. La ambiciosa reportera de televisión Whitney Connolly está segura de que el Estrangulador del Sur es su billete de salida de Nashville. Tiene una primicia que podría resolver el caso. No sabe lo cerca que está de la historia, ni lo que va a costarle. A medida que el asesino pierde el control, todo aquél involucrado en la situación deberá enfrentarse a una horrible verdad: la maldad más pura nace de mentiras privadas.
From New York Times bestselling author J T Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career whose past threatens to destroy everything she has and everyone she knows A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist But for one author the biggest twist of all is her own murder With a number of hit titles and a highly anticipated movie tie in celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is at the top of her game Fans around the world adore her But on the final night of her latest book tour one face in the crowd makes the author collapse And by the next morning she s lying dead in a pool of blood Columbia s death shocks the world and leaves Darian her daughter and publicist reeling The police have nothing to go on at first But then details emerge pointing to the author s illicit past Turns out many people had motive to kill Columbia And with a hungry reporter and frustrated cop on the trail her secrets won t stay buried long But how many lives will they shatter as the truth comes out