Iris Johansen keeps the wader intrigued with complex characters and plenty of plot twists. The story moves so fast,you'll be reading the epilogue before you notice.

Johansen pushes the gender boundary in popular fiction, offering up that rarity: a woman's novel for men.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has been summoned to Baton Rouge by a high-ranking government official to identify the remains of an unknown murder victim. Eve wants nothing to do with the project. She has finally found peace from her own tragic past, liv!ng a quiet life with Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and her adopted daughter, Jane. Then a stunning series of seemingly unrelated events turns Eve's new world upside down.Now. in a special government facility, she takes on the project of identifying the victim's skeleton. But she hasn't even begun when the first death occurs, Someone totally ruthless, someone who can strike anywhere at any time and with seeming immunity,is determined to put a halt to her work. her life. and the lives of those she loves. Eve has stumbled onto a chilling conspxracy.There is only one person who can give her the devastating truth...and he is already dead.