I don't need to be informed as personal life is personal for a reason - I mind mine, please, mind yours, it's none of my business. Instead he veers off and adds in more murders, a small town with secrets, mysterious residents, and New York City mobsters from the 1980's.

Although this was the second in a series, I have not read the first one and still found it incredibly easy to follow. Filling in some gaps in a narrative that Atlee had created, the disappearance of Mercy Pine remains a massive mystery. While a friend of mine on Goodreads ‘pined’ (pardon the pun) for a full-on investigation into the Mercy disappearance, the fact that another case takes centre stage pleased me. Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X A fabulous new character from a master storyteller.Travelling to Georgia with her resourceful assistant Carol Blum, she finds people she knew as a child still living there - but then dead bodies staged in unusual poses start appearing: why has a serial killer started operating so soon after her arrival and can she stop them and get to the bottom of her personal tragedy when everyone seems to be hiding secrets from the past? Her development in the present is tested as well, as she tries to define herself as an FBI agent while seeking answers for a past that remains so shrouded. FBI Agent Atlee Pine's life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was kidnapped--and likely killed--thirty years ago.

They were six when a man came into their bedroom and took her and hit Mercy so hard that she ended up in the hospital with severe head trauma.She keeps being referred to by her name, last name or nickname even by the same person within just a few pages of dialogue. This is the second in the FBI agent Atlee Pine series by David Baldacci, and it's a cracker of a sequel that opens with Pine in the Valley of Death in Colorado at ADX Florence, the only American federal super max prison visiting the narcissistic, sociopath serial killer, Daniel James Tor. If you have read Long Road to Mercy, Book one in the Atlee Pine series you will know what a fantastic character Atlee is.