by Kay Hooper
Part of Bishop/Special Crimes Unit, book 4
First published 2001
Maggie Barnes sits across from shattered crime victims in Seattle police stations. She listens to their broken descriptions of attackers and transforms their words into precise sketches. Her fellow officers whisper that she reads minds, that she slips inside victims' thoughts to see what they saw. Maggie guards the real source of her gift. A predator stalks Seattle's women. He takes them, blinds them, leaves them destroyed but breathing. The police pin their hopes on one victim who might regain her sight. They don't know Maggie shares a twisted bond with this killer. The connection reaches back to murders that were never solved. The attacks multiply. Maggie must stretch her abilities beyond their limits to stop him. She faces a hunter whose own dark powers seem endless. To save Seattle's women, she risks exposing the secret she has protected for years.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, secret-powers, twisted-bond
Setting: Seattle
384 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Bantam
Content warnings: murder, violence