Series: Book 1 in the Unsub series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Thriller, Lang:en
Summary
A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the
never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective
determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed
her family and terrorized a city twenty years
earlier.
Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six
months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood
nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB — what the
FBI calls an unknown subject — the Prophet terrorized
the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father,
the lead investigator on the case. The Prophet’s cryptic messages and mind games drove
Detective Mack Hendrix to the brink of madness,
and Mack’s failure to solve the series of
ritualized murders — eleven seemingly unconnected
victims left with the ancient sign for Mercury etched into
their flesh — was the final nail in the coffin for a
once promising career. Twenty years later, two bodies are found bearing the
haunting signature of the Prophet. Caitlin Hendrix has never
escaped the shadow of her father’s failure to protect
their city. But now the ruthless madman is killing again and
has set his sights on her, threatening to undermine the
fragile barrier she rigidly maintains for her own
protection, between relentless pursuit and dangerous
obsession. Determined to decipher his twisted messages and stop the
carnage, Caitlin ignores her father’s warnings as she
draws closer to the killer with each new gruesome murder. Is
it a copycat, or can this really be the same Prophet who
haunted her childhood? Will Caitlin avoid repeating her
father’s mistakes and redeem her family name, or will
chasing the Prophet drag her and everyone she loves into the
depths of the abyss?