"As Banks and his team follow what few clues they have, desperate to find the missing boy, who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves branching out in different directions. As the end game becomes a race against time, even Banks's team isn't safe from the rage of the hunted animal"--

At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over. Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, there is something unresolved about this case. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the detective digs deeper into the crime, deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks though he knew about the events outside the chapel. When the last shocking truth becomes clear, it's almost too late.

At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues; the culprit is captured; the story is over. Except it isn't. For detective Alan Banks, there is something unresolved about this case. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, Alan digs deeper into the crime--deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything he thought he knew about the events outside the chapel. When the last shocking truth becomes clear, it's almost too late.

With his sales on a sharp upswing, one of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with this gripping, powerful new novel featuring Alan Banks, hailed by Michael Connelly as "a man for all seasons."After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling a mystery--and corner a killer hiding in plain sight.