The Names of Dead Girls

As I read Eric Rickstads latest,The Names of Dead Girls, I felt myself constantly wanting to skip ahead -- anxious, desperate, to find out what was going to happen...Youre in the hands of one of the best in the business, at the very peak of his form. -- Michael Harvey, author ofBrightonNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad delivers another Canaan Crime noveland features once again detectives Frank Rath and Sonja Test as they track a depraved killer through rural Vermont.Every murder tells a story.

Some stories never end . . . In a remote northern Vermont town, college student Rachel Rath is being watched.

She can feel the strangers eyes on her, relentless and possessive. And shes sure the man watching her is the same man who killed her mother and father years ago: Ned Preacher, a serial rapist and murderer who gamed the system to get a light sentence.

Now, hes free. Detective Frank Rath adopted Rachel, his niece, after the shocking murder of her parents when she was a baby.

Ever since, Raths tried to protect her from the true story of her parents deaths.

But now Preacher is calling Rath to torment him. Hes threatening Rachel and plotting cruelties for her, of the flesh and of the mind.

When other girls are found brutally murdered, and a woman goes missing, Rath and Detective Sonja Test must untangle the threads that tie these new crimes and some long-ago nightmares together.

Soon they will learn that the truth is more perverse than anyone could guess, rife with secrets, cruel desires, and warped, deadly loyalty.Mesmerizing, startling, and intricately plotted, The Names of Dead Girls builds relentlessly on its spellbinding premise, luring readers into its dark and macabre mystery, right to its shocking end.