THE HEAD FACTORY

BEAR-BAITING, ONLY WITH HUMANS

At Malletts Bay, on the shores of Lake Champlain, the Devlin family’s brutal, drug-fuelled murder has left Detective Kemina Ames, of Vermont’s Major Crime Unit, baffled.

WELCOME (BACK) TO VEGAS

Ames has survived her violent past – her mother’s murder at the hands of her father, and her sister, Dara’s subsequent disappearance – by building walls inside herself. But when a homicide, with possible links to the Mallets Bay killings is discovered in Las Vegas, she must return to the city of her childhood nightmares.

A RACE FOR THE TRUTH

There, Ames is led on a journey of discovery by a sadistic and cruel mentor, a killer whose message is hidden in the bizarre and grotesque nature of his crimes. But can Ames crack the killer’s code? Can she uncover the truth about a decades old tyranny of corruption and abuse that appears to radiate from her own dark and tragic past?