塔米·霍格是美國女作傢，現定居在弗吉尼亞州，以撰寫節奏明快、故事驚險、語言幽默的美式推理小說見長。她熟悉聯邦調查局的運作模式，作品有很強的現實基礎，亦不乏大膽閤理的想象，加之融入女性獨特的視角，因而在不同類作品中獨樹一幟，成為各大圖書排行榜上的常客。主要作品包括《一條細細的黑綫》、《夜之罪》、《黑暗的天堂》、《灰煙散盡》及其姐妹篇《塵埃落定》等。

“Without a doubt . . . one of the most intense suspense writers around.”— Chicago Tribune

“[Tami Hoag] demonstrates just why she has become one of the hottest names in the suspense game. Bottom line: Leaves competition in the dust.” —People

He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn’t talking.

Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still. Her superiors are interested only because the latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant, an enigmatic billionaire. When Peter pulls strings, Special Agent John Quinn gets assigned to the case. But the FBI’s ace profiler of serial killers is the last person Kate wants to work with, not with their troubled history. Now she faces the most difficult role of her career—and her life. For she’s the only woman who has what it takes to stop the killer . . . and the one woman he wants next.

“You’ll want to lock the doors while you’re reading.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“An up-all-night read.”— The Detroit News