Kate Wiley

Detective Margot Phalen knows the mind of a serial killer better than most. She learned from the worst: her father, Ed Finch. When bodies keep appearing in the tranquil Muir Woods, California, and a woman is killed in Chinatown, Margot begins to realize these are no ordinary homicides. The eerie...

In the backseat, the baby started to cry. He turned the radio down and the Fleetwood Mac song faded away as he faced toward the little girl. “Shh, shh baby. Daddy will be right back,” he said, leaving the car running as he disappeared into the trees. Twenty years ago Ed Finch – America’s...

An addictive crime thriller packed with suspense You always check under your bed for monsters before you go to sleep. You never think to look right across the dinner table. Detective Margot Phalen has spent over a year hunting San Francisco’s most elusive predator—the Redwood Killer, who...

The sun is beginning to set as Margot watches the dive team haul the girl’s body from the lake, untangling the bag that had been used to weight it down among the rocks and the reeds. But it isn’t the cool evening air that chills Margot to the bone as the bag is opened up. It is the glimpse...

Her father was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Now Detective Margot Phalen must face a chilling possibility: what if it runs in the family? As the daughter of notorious serial killer Ed Finch, Margot has spent decades escaping her past—changing her name, her...