Cette série suit une enquêtrice exceptionnellement douée qui utilise ses compétences uniques et son intellect vif pour résoudre les crimes les plus déroutants de Californie. Chaque affaire la plonge plus profondément dans les recoins sombres de la psyché humaine, dévoilant des réseaux complexes de tromperie et de mystère. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des intrigues palpitantes, des explorations perspicaces du comportement criminel et une héroïne mémorable qui affronte le mal de front.
Kathryn Dance, die neue Ermittlerin von Jeffery Deaver, steht vor ihrem ersten Fall: Der Psychopath Daniel Pell, der vor acht Jahren eine Familie ermordete, ist aus dem Gefängnis geflohen. Nur Dance kann verhindern, dass er sein Verbrechen von damals wiederholt und die überlebende Tochter erneut in Gefahr bringt.
A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being 'remembered' is the following day - the day the police find a kidnapped teenage girl in the trunk of a car, left for dead. Special Agent Kathryn Dance, kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation, is on the case. The teenage victim points her to an online community where criticism is vicious. It looks as though one teen has finally snapped. Then further crosses appear. Now Dance must race against the clock to find the attacker before he can carry out his deadly plans for revenge . . . in the cyber world and the real.
Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop a celebrity stalker set in the world of country music.
Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller. A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned. She and her team must race against the clock to find where he will strike next before more innocents die.