Alex Rourke is an expert at navigating the twisted pathways of murderous minds. It's his job. The former FBI interrogator is now a private eye, and his work hasn't gotten any easier. He's been called back home to Winter's End after twenty years to help solve the vicious murder that has terrified the town. It won't be long before he realizes that he himself is part of the killer's sick game—a game that's far from over.

Winter's End used to be a sleepy town in the wooded hills of northeastern Mainemuntil the stormy night when Sheriff Dale Townsend found a young man with knives in his hands and a dead woman at his feet. But the suspect won't say anything, and amazingly there's no forensic evidence to link him to the murder....