AustLit

'On any night, 1 person in 200 is homeless …

'Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump.

'Still haunted by her last run-in with a serial killer, Cass Lehman is trying hard to focus on the future. That’s not easy when she has the ‘gift’ of retrocognition … the ability to spontaneously re-live the last minutes of a person’s life.

'Cass and Detective Ed Dyson are now trying to make a normal home together, but when she gets entangled in Ed’s latest case things are far from normal.

'A twisted tale of love, desperation and murder ... When the psychic meets the psychotic, who will come out unscathed?' (Publication summary)

'A reluctant psychic, a troubled detective… and a deeply twisted serial killer.

'Moving to the city, Cass Lehman hoped to leave her recent notoriety behind her. Her ability to experience the final moments of a violent death helped the local police capture a serial killer, but also meant she was almost his first victim…

'With a place of her own and a new job, things are looking up for Cass. But just as she starts to feel settled, Cass is targeted by a deranged stalker.

'Are the personal attacks linked to a string of unsettling deaths that have left the police stumped?

'Her ‘gift’ is called on yet again by the one man she vowed she would never contact. Cass and police Detective Ed Dyson are thrown back into each other’s lives but can they overcome their feelings to put an end to the terror?

'Will her experiences of death reveal the mind of the killer… or is there no such thing as a happy ending?' (Publication summary)