On a hot summer night in Florida, a beautiful young woman is brutally raped and murdered. . .Twenty years later, the man convicted of her slaying is released from prison only days before another horrific crime is committed. . .Now, Louis Kincaid must follow a trail of death that connects a decades-old case with a new murder and leads him into a web of secrets and lies surrounding a twisted killer. As one sweltering day melts into the next, the scent of blood hangs thick in the air.

Originally published: New York : Kensington, 2003.