Murder Town : A Novel

Summary: Fifteen years ago, in a small town in the Australian Outback, three people died at the hands of a serial killer known as the Rainier Ripper. When a tour guide is killed by a Ripper copycat on Gemma Guillory's doorstep, the unease that has lurked quietly in the original killers wake explodes into the light, and Gemma is drawn into the investigation. Unbeknownst to her, so is a prisoner named Lane Holland, a former private investigator who earned a living cracking cold cases before he ran afoul of the law. From the author of 'Wake'.