Edge of Death Author:Maura Sheridan Meredith Brantley has had enough of the FBI. She used to be one of their best profilers, able to use the barest evidence to construct a killer's identity, to discover his motive, to figure out where he would strike next. But she's through with having to enter the warped mind of a killer. Now she teaches criminology to college students. Until she... more » gets a desperate phone call...
The Bureau needs her again. Badly. The body of a beautiful young woman has been found near the West Side Highway in Manhattan -- in pieces. This is no ordinary murder. There's a method to this madness, and Meredith recognizes it as the work of a possible serial killer. Reluctantly, she agrees to take the case, determined to stop this maniac before he kills again. But what she discovers as she digs deeper will chill her blood -- and attract unwanted attention from the killer.« less
Former FBI profiler Meredith Brantley is forced out of retirement to investigate the murder and mutilation of a young girl in Manhattan at the hands of a twisted serial killer whose motives are far more disturbing than she could have ever imagined.