After her ordeal with Serial Killer, Justin Parsons, Maddy Sheridan finds herself struggling to cope with the mental trauma she is experiencing because of it. While at a visit to her psychiatrist, Maddy is approached by a young girl who recognizes her from the stories in the paper about the kidnapping. The girl, seventeen year old, Jillian Masters, later confides in Maddy that she thinks a family member is sexually assaulting her friend, Wendy Patterson. Jillian calls Maddy to take her to her friend because she is worried something awful has happened. What Maddy finds is Wendy dead from an apparent suicide. Or is it? The scene just doesn't add up for Maddy and leads her to believe Wendy's death is not a suicide but a murder. In order to keep Maddy from returning to her former position as an FBI profiler, Jackson Parker gets Maddy a job as a consulting Offender Profiler and Crime Scene Analyst for the SCPD. The Patterson murder becomes her first case. Three days into the case, Wendy's stepbrother, Josh, is found dead in what appears to be a violent car accident. After examining the vehicle and Josh's body, Maddy comes to the conclusion; this too, is not as it appears to be. In Josh's car, they find the evidence missing from Wendy's murder, but Maddy doesn't believe he is the perp but was set up to make it look like he was the killer. The two people who can be linked to both kids are Jillian and Wendy's boyfriend, Chad Tucker. Maddy uncovers a diabolical plan perpetuated by the psychopathic teenager and her friend's boyfriend who, he himself, is caught up in Jillian's web of lies and deceit. Now the hard part-proving it. The investigation becomes a game of cat and mouse between Maddy and Jillian as Maddy struggles to find some way to link Jillian to the murders. Suspicion doesn't get you a conviction. The second volume of the Maddy Sheridan series finds Maddy working with Chief of Detectives Jack Parker, former FBI agents Detective Bryan Mayland and Detective Andy Whittmer, or as they are known around the precinct as the Feeb Squad. This volume highlights Maddy's skills and a profiler and crime scene expert. Maddy reveals more of her desire for the truth, her wicked sense of humor, and fiery Irish temper.
About the Author: Mari Bauer is a resident of Holstein, Iowa where she has owned and operated the Holstein Advance for the past sixteen years. Bauer basis the information used in her storylines from numerous classes she has taken in forensics, abnormal psychology, criminology and hours of research. Besides writing she spends her free time working with her horses, gardening, and spending time with her two children, Tyler and Kelsey.