two crime scenes. two multiple murders. usa today & amazon 2-million copy bestselling author blake banner is at his best in this mystifying crime series! two multiple murders that had too much in common to be mere coincidence. cherise brown, her small daughter shevron, her husband earl. the only survivor, eight year-old leroy who witnessed the whole thing. his story, that his father broke his sister's neck, his mother stabbed his father in the back and his dad, before dying, in a kind of berserker rage, took the knife and killed his mother. four years later leroy brown is murdered along with his adoptive sister, lea. he is stabbed in the back, while his sister's throat is cut, in a tool shed in the back yard of his adoptive family. the only survivor, his adoptive brother, marcus mitchell, now trapped in a catatonic depression, unable to move or speak, unable to tell anybody his story. when the mysterious sonia laplant brings new evidence, and stone and dehan begin to investigate, they soon discover that not only are the two murders intimately linked, they are impossible to explain. because the killer simply could not have been there...