From acclaimed thriller writer Sarah Lotz, hailed by Stephen King as vastly entertaining, a new novel about a group of amateur detectives infiltrated by the sadistic killer whose crimes they´re investigating.
Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn´t been heard from since. None of Shaun´s relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle´s death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone.
But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His search is unsuccessful until he´s contacted by Chris Guzman, a woman who runs a website dedicated to matching missing-persons cases with unidentified bodies. Chris and her team of cold-case obsessives suspect that Shaun is looking for the Boy in the Dress, one victim in a series of gay men murdered by the same killer.
But who are these internet fanatics really, and how do they know so much about a case that has stumped police for decades? Soon armchair sleuths and professional investigators are on a collision course with a sadistic serial killer who´s gotten away with his crimes for far too long - and now they´re in his sights.