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    "description": "\"Sweat trickles down the girl\u2019s spine as she dances around her bedroom. The curtains blow open and a gust of hot, humid air comes through the window. She has no idea she is being watched from the street below. The dainty chain around her neck will soon be his. Another keepsake. His second broken girl.\n\nOn the banks of the River Rothay, as the first rays of sunshine hit the fast-flowing water, Melody Carrick\u2019s body lies lifeless, red strangulation marks where her gold cross necklace used to hang. Detective Morgan Brookes is certain the killer was surprised by early-morning dog walkers, and she won\u2019t rest until she unearths the evidence she needs to stop his next attack.\n\nBut before Morgan has a chance to attend the post-mortem, seventeen-year-old Paige Evans rushes into the police station claiming her stepfather Alan kidnapped her best friend. He has an old wooden box full of jewellery that she believes are trophies. Morgan\u2019s blood runs cold: Melody\u2019s necklace is tangled up in the chains.\n\nMorgan races to Alan\u2019s home, but on the way, she spots a young woman stumbling out of a nearby forest. She\u2019s not Paige\u2019s missing friend. Disorientated, with ropes cutting into her wrists and tears running down her face, the girl claims to have been abducted and then suddenly set free. By a man who looks nothing like Alan.\n\nChasing the most twisted killer of her career, can Morgan discover the connection between these terrible crimes? With two girl's lives already in ruins, can she find the latest innocent victim this monster has hidden in time?",
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