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<p><b>The past always resurfaces-and this killer is coming home one last time.</b></p><p><b>In Raleigh, a retired detective who's never let go is about to get her answers.</b></p><p>Divorced for many years, Penelope is now retired from the Raleigh Police Department. She channels her relentless energy into training-marathons at first, now her first triathlon. She's never been good at sitting still.</p><p>She's also not good at walking away. Even though the case officially belongs to the department, she keeps working on it-the Parking Lot Strangler case. On her own time, she spends hours studying the evidence. The dead women deserve better than to be forgotten. She's determined to be their voice, their advocate. She can't give up on them.</p><p>Tracey Lauch is returning to Raleigh to tie up loose ends. He has it all now-Charlotte, his beautiful wife who adores him, and baby Sarah, recently christened and surrounded by love. He's selling his Raleigh house, handing off his philanthropic work, and moving permanently to Sicily. It's a meticulously constructed life where his past is buried deep enough to stay hidden.</p><p>Then Tracey invites Penelope to his house-he doesn't tell her why. What she discovers there redefines her entire investigation.</p><p><b>Unexpected evidence. A killer's day of reckoning. Betrayal that cuts deep.</b></p>