When three children stumble on a shallow grave in 1984, an idyllic California community is rocked to its core. The victim is a young woman, her eyes and lips sealed closed, a blind and silent witness to an unspeakable crime. The third victim in two yearsтАЩ time, itтАЩs clear that a serial killer has come calling.┬а┬а
As a member of the FBIтАЩs fledgling criminal profiling unit, Special Agent Tony Mendez knows serial killers. It quickly becomes apparent that the See-No-Evil killer is no ordinary psychopath. The profile paints a portrait of a man easily trusted, well respected, and intelligentтАФa man no one would suspect.
Dr. Peter Crane fits the bill. A pillar of the community, he volunteers at a center for disadvantaged womenтАФa center the victims had all attended. Crane is also a beloved husband and father to a ten-year-old son, Tommy, who was one of the three children to discover the grave. Needing insight into Peter CraneтАЩs world, Mendez asks Anne Navarre, TommyтАЩs fifth-grade teacher, to find out what she can. ItтАЩs a request Anne finds both intriguing and unethicalтАФmuch like Mendez himself.
Then a new victim leads to a different suspectтАФa man whose son was another of the three children to find the grave but a man whose position in the community is also above reproach, a sheriffтАЩs deputy. As the connections between the two families become increasingly tangled, it seems clear that one of these children holds the key to a serial killerтАЩs double life . . . and a revelation of evil so dark, so deep, no one may survive.
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