Designing Justice

Abandoned by her life partner and struggling to stay afloat, Fern Marie Shillingford takes in a lodger, hoping to steady her life. Instead, her choice sets in motion a nightmare that ends in her disappearance-and exposes a far darker truth than anyone imagined. She had been kidnapped and murdered. What begins as a single homicide case quickly widens into a chilling investigation of women targeted through online ads. As patterns emerge in the victims, the methods, and the scenes left behind, two detectives must confront a predator who hides in plain sight. Newly transferred homicide detective Taryn Mae Hicks and seasoned investigator Kaley Callum are uneasy partners, bound by distrust, pressure, and the mounting weight of every lead that comes too late. To stop a killer, they must learn to work together or risk losing the next woman before they even know her name.