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A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller with a Twist You Won't See Coming Mara Voss Detective Series, Book 1

She caught the Tally Man eight years ago. The killing never actually stopped.

Detective Mara Voss built her career on one case: the conviction of a serial killer who carved descending numbers into his victims' arms, counting down from seven. She put him on death row. She closed the file. She slept at night.

Then a new body turns up - marked with a six.

The signature is exact. The wound pattern is exact. And the detail carved into this victim's forearm was never released to the public, which means whoever is doing this either learned it from the original killer himself, or was there from the start.

As the bodies climb toward zero and the clock on a stayed execution keeps ticking, Mara realizes she's not chasing a copycat - she's being hunted by someone who has spent eleven years standing close enough to her to learn exactly how she thinks. Someone she trusted completely. Someone wearing a badge.

A relentless, character-driven thriller for readers who love a smart female detective lead, a slow-burn psychological cat-and-mouse, and a final twist that reexamines everything that came before it.

Perfect for fans of gripping police procedurals, serial killer thrillers, and mystery suspense novels with morally complex villains and twisty, unputdownable endings.