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    "description": "You have to stop me from hurting anyone else. I don\u2019t want to do these horrible things. Help me before I\u2019m forced to do it again. And I will do it again because I have no choice. I\u2019ve never had a choice.\n\nIn a busy shopping centre, a little girl clutches a teddy bear, clinging to it in the absence of her mother, Katrina. Hours later, Katrina\u2019s body is discovered in an abandoned building. For Detective Kim Stone, it looks like a quick, functional murder. But Kim\u2019s instincts tell her there\u2019s more to this senseless murder than meets the eye. What was the motive for killing a young mother out shopping with her child?\n\nDays later, a second victim is found in a local park, her neck broken just like Katrina\u2019s and her six-year-old son missing.\n\nBut with her colleague, Detective Stacey Wood, working on another unsolved crime and a member of the team grieving the loss of a close relative, Kim is struggling to make inroads on what is fast becoming a complex case. And when a handwritten letter from the killer lands on Kim\u2019s desk addressed to her, and pleading for help, she knows time is running out to bring the little boy home alive.\n\nWith the support of a handwriting analyst and profiler, Kim and the team begin to get inside the mind of the killer and make a shocking discovery.\n\nSome of the victims have scratch marks on their wrists.\n\nBut these are no random scratches. The killer is using them to communicate with someone. The question is\u2026 with whom?\n\nAnd if Kim doesn\u2019t find them soon, another innocent soul will die. ",
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