The 23rd novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series Detective Alex Cross is going home - to solve his most personal case yet. When his cousin stands accused of a terrible murder Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in thirty years. As he strives to prove his cousins innocence amid small-town corruption and prejudice Cross unearths a family secret that makes him question everything he thought he knew. Chasing the ghosts of the past Cross is pulled into a case baffling local police: a grisly string of murders all of socialites. Hot on the trail of a brutal killer as well as his own past Cross knows the answers he finds might be fatal...