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The phone call to the police arrives at dusk from an isolated farmhouse, fifty miles from the city. A terrified woman's voice pleads for help. But a violent storm rages in the area and the first available patrol only succeeds in reaching her hours later. It is too late. Something perturbing has happened, something which leaves the investigators in the dark.

Just one person is able to reveal the message hidden behind this act of evil, but this person is no longer a policeman. She left her work as a missing persons investigator and withdrew from society to live an isolated existence beside a lake; her daughter Alice her only companion. Even so, when she is called upon to help with this case, Mila Vasquez cannot shirk her duty. The investigation involves her closely . . . more than she could ever believe.

It is a game and it has only just started.

Because he is always a step ahead.

Ten years after the debut of the international bestseller The Whisperer, the challenge begins again.

Since she couldn't close the portal to the dark dimension, she had severed all links with the past. Even though she always kept her pistol in the drawer by her bed, she no longer had to hunt for anybody. She'd convinced herself that if she no longer sought the dark, the dark would no longer come after her...

Praise for Donato Carrisi

'Gruesome and gripping . . . a taut psychological thriller' The Times for the The Whisperer

'Carrisi has a series of shocks up his sleeve, forcing readers to question everything in this coldly brilliant exposé of the depths of human nature' Sunday Times for The Girl in the Fog

'This mesmerising literary crime story is already a richly deserved sensation in Europe. It is so compelling, beautifully constructed and atmospheric that you'll savour each word . . . Spellbinding' Daily Mail for The Girl in the Fog

Translated by Katherine Gregor.

Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 and studied law and criminology. He won four Italian literature prizes for his bestselling debut The Whisperer. Since 1999 he has been working as a TV screenwriter, and he lives in Rome.

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