Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, a mummified body is discovered in the ice, the victim of a bizarre ritualistic killing that happened nearly six thousand years ago. For journalist Maura County, this story is her ticket to the big time -- if she can get the help of the FBI's top profiler. Special ...
The thump of the landing gear deploying vibrated up through the floor. The turbulence was terrific. Across the aisle, Geisel made anguished grunting noises, gripping his armrests like a child in a dentist chair getting his teeth drilled.But Grove hardly noticed the bumpy descent. He had withdrawn...
It seemed the moment Grove shut the inner door, the entire front half of the bungalow erupted. It sounded as though wild animals had been let loose out there: the muffled zephyr wailing, glass shattering, temblors rocking through the bungalow’s foundation. The electricity immediately fizzed out a...
But that night, in the impermeable darkness that seemed to draw down on the valley like a great shroud, the primeval beauty of eastern Kentucky turned inside out with the grotesque grandeur of bat wings, unfurling in the silence, feeding Drinkwater’s dread and guilt and remorse.Would she ever see...