Forensic psychologist Dr. Christie McMorrow and detective Bill Drummond investigate the grisly murders of three young girls. They discover human traffickers operating a child prostitution ring. Suspecting collusion among the traffickers and law enforcement, Christie and Bill face killer dogs, crooked cops, body parts thieves, and a sociopathic butcher in their search for evidence to indict the conspirators. Stephen Scott,a psychopathic killer, brings their search to a horrifying end. Bill fights for his sanity. Christie fights for her soul as she struggles to recover from the tortuous post traumatic consequences of Scott's return.
JOANNE CLAREY grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Colby College, Waterville, Maine with an B.A.in English Literature. She taught English in New Hampshire, New York, and Maine public schools, worked as a counselor at a maximum security forensic institution, and operated her own antique business before earning her M.Ed. and Ed.D., in Counseling and Supervision at the University of Maine. She taught Counseling and Women's Studies at the University of Southern Maine and worked as a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice and as a consultant for over two decades.
Research articles on women's development, newsletter columns, two career training manuals for women, music lyrics and numerous other non-fiction writings preceded Clarey's fiction writing. She is the author of six fiction novels, numerous articles, short stories and poems. The Dr. Christie McMorrow thriller series, TWISTED TRUTH and SKINNED, takes place in Portland, Maine and the Hummingbird Falls mystery series, THE MYSTERIES OF HUMMINGBIRD FALLS, RIDDLED TO DEATH,THE FALL HUNT, and COLD CALL takes place in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Clarey lives in New England. Her life is enriched by her partner, two children, her grandson, four siblings, wonderful friends, challenging and supportive authors, and her writers' roundtable. In addition to writing, Clarey gives talks about writing, sits on panels at conferences, collects rocks, pans for gold, reads, creates in mixed media and loves to swim in icy mountain streams and lakes.
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