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Detective Mike McCabe moved from a top homicide job with the NYPD to Portland, Maine, to leave his failed marriage and suspicions of wrongdoing behind, and to find a more peaceful life for himself and his 13-year-old daughter. But the small New England city is not nearly as safe as he thought. On a warm September night, a missing high school athlete is found dead in a scrap-metal yard, her heart removed from her body with surgical precision. As outrage over the killing spreads, a young businesswoman disappears while out on a morning jog.

One cold night Lainie Goff, a glamorous young attorney on the fast track to a partnership at Portland's top firm, is found frozen in the trunk of her BMW on the local fishing pier. Detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage quickly uncover a long list of suspects.

On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing waters of the river below. Yet the real cause of death was trauma suffered 12 years earlier, when Hannah was plucked from a crowd of freshman girls at a college fraternity party, drugged, and then viciously assaulted by six members of the college football team.

The mutilated body of a young woman. The town doctor lying comatose in the road. And 150 tablets of Canadian OxyContin. This is the havoc that a merciless killer has wreaked on a sleepy Maine seaport. As detectives Maggie Savage and Michael McCabe investigate, they realize the man they are after does not exist. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody has seen his face. But everybody fears his blade.

Two identical women. Two identical murders. Two lives brutally cut short 108 years apart. Aimée Garnier Whitby, a beautiful French artist and wife of one of Maine's richest and most powerful men, is found near death on the Whitby family's private summer island, the letter "A" mysteriously carved into her chest.

Die Leiche eines 16-jährigen Mädchens wird gefunden, das Herz mit chirurgischer Präzision entfernt. Eine weitere Frau wird entführt: Jemand stiehlt die Herzen schöner junger Frauen...

In einer dunklen nebligen Nacht wird in einem Park in Eastport eine junge Frau kaltblütig ermordet. Die einzige Augenzeugin entkam dem Mörder um Haaresbreite, liegt seitdem jedoch im Koma. Detektiv Maggie Savage vom Portland Police Department wird auf Anraten ihres Vaters, Sheriff in Eastport, zu dem Fall hinzugezogen. Der Polizei ist bald klar, dass der Täter ein Mann namens Conor Riordan sein muss. Das Problem ist nur: Eine Person mit diesem Namen existiert offiziell nicht.

Ein bronzefarbener BMW auf einem Anlegesteg. Im Kofferraum die nackte, gefrorene Leiche der schönen Anwältin Elaine Goff...