In this brilliantly chilling follow-up toThe Thief of All Light, veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the pastand the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth . . . at any cost.

Theres a thousand scavengers in these woods.

Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer. Through her mentor, Jacob Reina seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brinkshe was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country. Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will lead her to a decades-old cold caseand the darkest secrets of her mentors youth.

Nobody trusts an animal that tries to eat its own kind.

Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing. A police officer was murdered. Another committed suicide. The lives of e