<p><b>A terrifying serial killer thriller which fans of Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, and Karin Slaughter will love. </b><br><b><br> ''Like Patterson or Cornwell, Hoffman creates vivid, engrossing crime investigations''</b><i> Time Out </i><br>__________<br><br> Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida''s Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend - for the torture and murder of eleven young women.<br><br>But now the three cops crucial to Bantling''s conviction have been brutally slain. <br><br>And what''s more, CJ knew them all - and the shocking secret they took to their graves.<br><br> But it''s clear that somebody else also knows the truth - though their reasons for wanting it kept quiet are very different to CJ''s. <br><br><i>Which leaves her with a terrifying choice: reveal the secret she swore to keep and stay alive - or be its last witness, and the next to die . . .</i><br><br><b><u>Praise for Jilliane Hoffman:</u></b><br><b><br> ''Intensely readable'' </b><