From the internationally bestselling thriller writer who has been compared to Thomas Harris, the third and final novel in the "Caselli and Torre Series"-a web of betrayals and shocking violence in which the series' brilliant detectives must, if they want to live, figure out what is real and what is imagined.
Detective Colomba Caselli is reeling from a deadly bombing in Venice and, also, her investigative partner Dante's disappearance, so she retreats to the rural countryside outside Rome to nurse her wounds. When an apparently autistic teenager appears in her yard, covered in blood, he leads her to a brutal crime scene where nothing is what it seems. As Colomba gets pulled into the investigation and the body count continues to grow, she herself is implicated in the violence. She's sure that a powerful villain is working in the shadows to cause the carnage and frame her, but the only person who can help her is Dante, and he hasn't been seen in over a year and is presumed dead. Colomba knows he's alive and out there somewhere, but will she find him before it's too late? Can she clear her name and be free of the far-reaching tentacles of the Father and his accomplices once and for all?