From the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife comes the thrilling first installment in the Shepard & Bray series, featuring a young sheriff who teams up with a traumatized former prosecutor. This is Reaper speaking. So begins the anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered. Salt Lake County sheriff Gale Bray leads the investigation into the double homicide, eerily reminiscent of a spate of brutal killings years ago. But when the letter leads detectives to another body, Bray decides to call on an old friend for help. Former prosecutor Solomon Shepard was a cunning legal strategist—right up until a defendant stabbed him in court. Since then, Shepard has struggled to recover from the attack that ended his career. He’s teaching criminology seminars and coping with lingering trauma when Bray brings him into the fold on the Reaper case. With a particular interest in serial murders and psychopathology, Shepard dives into the investigation with Bray at the helm. As the body count mounts, Shepard and Bray race to unravel the deranged design of a copycat killer and face off with an enemy they never saw coming
