If it was possible to give more than five stars on a review
this book deserves it.
In a typical small American town a silent killer stalks the
streets kidnapping, maiming and killing five women and disappearing until
twenty years later when suddenly it starts all over again. Is it a copy-cat
killer or has the murderer the police dubbed Neptune come out of hiding one
last time?
For young Reggie, just thirteen when her mother disappeared,
life holds more questions than answers. Whereas the severed right hand of her
mom showed up on the doorstep of the police department just like all the others
whose bodies where all left on public display days later, her mother’s body was
never found. Now a successful architect trying to get on with her life, she is
thrown a curve-ball when a call from the hospital reveals her mother has been
admitted.
Apparently her mother has been a transient, living in
homeless shelters for years. How did she get back home, and why did she not die
like all the others. As she begins to ask questions, her best friend from her
days in high school, Tara, reappears in their life and takes the job as
care-giver for her mother only to be kidnapped and her hand placed on the
police department’s steps just like all the others. In a race to save Tara’s
life Reggie puts her own life on the line.
Trouble is brewing in this small town. Evil is
stirring up the cauldron, slowly adding ingredients such as red-herrings and
false suspicions as slowly the pot comes to a boil. With the turn of every page
you expect to be totally blown away. McMahon is at her best as she raises the
temperature and the tempo until it all spills over and leaves you gasping in
surprise
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