“Chalk up another winner for [John Sandford] and his all-too-human hero” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) in the #1 NY Times bestselling Victim series.

After one stressed college-age pupil disappears and two are located slashed to loss of life, Lucas Davenport discovers himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack port the Ripper. Unfortunately the signs aren’t adding up-and after that there’s the youthful Goth woman who keeps showing up and disappearing. Where does she come from? Where does she go every night? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there surely is something else going on here? Something very bad, very dark, so that as elusive being a phantom…