Her Last Word

Kaitlin Roe was the only witness. Fourteen years ago, on a lonely Virginia road, she saw a masked stranger take her cousin Gina, and she has been living with the screams ever since. The case went cold; the nightmares did not.

Now Kaitlin has decided to do the one thing that might give her peace: interview everyone connected to the abduction and turn it into a podcast, forcing the story back into the open. It works better than she wanted. When one of the women she questions is found stabbed to death, it is clear that someone has been listening — and that whoever took Gina is still in Virginia, still watching.

Detective John Adler works the new killing alongside Kaitlin, and the closer the two of them get, the less the past resembles the version Kaitlin has been carrying. Her Last Word is the second book in Mary Burton's Criminal Profiler series.