Under Cover Of Darkness

Gus Wheatley thinks he's found success. The youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm, nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top - until his wife vanishes.

Beth dropped off their six-year-old daughter at the youth centre one afternoon, and no one has seen her since. Her disappearance comes just as FBI profilers are called in to examine a bizarre pattern of brutal serial murders. The FBI dubs them "bookend killings", as the killer seems to be striking his victims in pairs: first two men, then two women.

But this is just the beginning of the nightmare for Gus. Soon Seattle police fashion a theory that leaves two horrifying possibilities: either Beth is the killer's latest victim . . . or she is his willing accomplice.