The Other Child — Charlotte Link

SHADOWS OF INNOCENCE…

Detective Inspector Valerie Almond has a bad feeling about the murder of icy matriarch Fiona Barnes. Already haunted by her own vulnerabilities and shaky confidence, Valerie is negotiating a dangerous maze of suspects with more lies than alibis. And she can't dismiss the feeling this crime is linked to the murder of a lonely college student months ago and miles away. Or that a particularly vicious killer is far from finished…

Now she has little time to break down the family tensions and twisted motives beneath Fiona's carefully constructed life. For Fiona's devastating posthumous confession has surfaced -- a decades-long tale of a traumatized boy uprooted during WWII, a pact of love and ruthless obsession…and a horrifying fate still claiming innocent victims and would-be rescuers alike. Valerie's instincts are leading her straight into all-consuming madness -- and an evil waiting to make her its next victim.