Medical Serial Killers

They were trusted with lives. Some used that trust to kill. Behind the clean white coats, polished hospital floors, and quiet patient rooms, some of history’s most disturbing killers hid in plain sight. They were doctors, nurses, caregivers, poisoners, and medical professionals who understood one terrifying truth: in hospitals and nursing homes, death can look natural long enough for murder to continue.

Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life. What secrets does the water conceal? The girl in the water marks the third such case in the area - all drowned with superficial stab wounds and discovered in a body of water - and Darger feels certain she won't be the last. The corpses are badly decomposed.