Even good folks are drawn to do evil things…

Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while going for walks to a friend’s house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess hardly ever came house, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was delivered to prison but years later was released. After that someone delivered true justice-and wiped out him in cool blood.

Now Rainfall is living an ideal suburban existence, her dark child years buried deep. She spends about The Stranger Inside her times as a stay-at-home mom, having put aside her career as a hard-hitting journalist to look after her infant girl. But when another brutal murderer who escaped justice is found dead, Rain is certainly unexpectedly drawn in to the case. Eerie commonalities towards the murder of her close friends’ abductor drive Rainfall to revisit remembrances she’s worked well hard to keep behind. Is there a vigilante at the job? Who is another target? Why can’t Rain just let it go?

Introducing perhaps one of the most compelling and original killers in crime fiction today, Lisa Unger calls for readers deep in the minds of both perpetrator and victim, blurring the lines between correct and wrong, crime and justice, and displaying that sometimes people deserve what involves them.