They say lightning never strikes the same place twice… The respectable residents of the sleepy town of Concord, Massachusetts are rocked by a second murder within the Chase family. Three years after the drowning of wild child Mary, the Chase matriarch – Sarah – is discovered with her throat slit and the two children missing. Despite solving Mary’s murder, the good Doctor Josiah Bartlett is warned by the town sheriff not to stick his nose into lawmen’s work. Nevertheless, Bartlett is determined to solve the gruesome murder and – with the help of his daughter Hannah – they set out to find the missing children and trap a dangerously unstable killer. How far are they willing to go to bring the killer to justice? Or, rather, how much are they willing to sacrifice? 'Gripping right from the very first page' - Tom Kasey, bestselling author of Cold Kill Daniel Bjork is Professor of History at St Mary’s University, Texas, and specialises in United States intellectual and cultural history. He is the author of four books, including major biographies of philosopher/psychologist William James and the behavioural psychologist B F Skinner. He teaches all phases of United States history and has developed special topics courses in American biography, including ones on notable entrepreneurs and notorious criminals.