DEAR DEPARTED
She arrived home only seconds after her sister was murdered. And the killer was still in the house...
Detective Sergeant Natalie Collins was a decorated homicide veteran, but nothing could have prepared her for what she found in her apartment that night: her beautiful sister, murdered. And the killer still there. He grabbed her from behind, and suddenly Natalie is fighting for her life. But just before she met the same fate as her sister, she was rescued by a mysterious bearded man.
But no one believed her story. All the evidence--from the murder weapon to her bloody sleeve--condemned her as the prime suspect. Now Natalie is on the run, a fugitive from justice desperate to find the bearded man and clear her name...and even more desperate to track down the killer and deliver some real justice. Meanwhile, her quarry is methodically working his way back toward the woman who escaped him before. The only one who dared stand in his way...
Available September 1, 2009
"You might want to lock the doors before starting this one. Enes Smith possesses a gut-level understanding of the word 'evil' and it shows."
--Ken Goddard, best selling author of The Alchemist, Prey, and Outer Perimeter