Before he Kills

A woman is found dead in a Nebraska cornfield, strung up on a pole. Police quickly see that the killer has done this before, and that more murders are coming.

Detective Mackenzie White is young, tough and sharper than the older men on her local force. They call her in with reluctance, though they know her mind has already cracked cold cases that left them stumped. This one is different. Nothing in their experience matches it.

When the FBI joins the investigation, a full manhunt begins. Mackenzie is working alongside a new FBI agent she is undeniably drawn to, and she carries a dark past and failed relationships into every step of the hunt.

As she studies the killer's twisted psychology, the case pulls her into the bleakest corners of her own mind. Her life starts to come apart while the bodies add up. This is a serial-killer thriller with a female detective at its centre, and it runs on a ticking clock: she has to find him before he strikes again.