City of Fear - Alafair Burke

IN A CITY OF VICTIMS, IT’S MURDER TO CHOOSE JUST ONE…

Fresh-faced student Chelsea Hart spends her final night of vacation in New York in an elite nightclub with girlfriends and a fake ID.

The next morning she is found murdered in East River Park, her celebrated blonde hair hacked off.

NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is first on the case and quickly homes in on the party boys last seen with Chelsea. When a tight case is brought against one of them, the department is elated.

But Ellie isn’t so sure.

Chelsea’s murder is eerily similar to three other deaths that occurred a decade ago: the victims were young, female, and in each case, the killer had taken hair as a souvenir. Is Ellie right to have her suspicions, or is she delving too deep into a simple case?

Ellies search for the truth pits her against her fellow cops and places her under the watchful eye of a psychopath. eager to add to his list…