D.L. Johnstone

he woods. A serial killer is at work. Local police detective John McCarty is picked to lead a task force to find the murderer. But inexperience, politics, and McCarty’s own inner demons quickly overwhelm him and the investigation falters. Meanwhile, on a dark, lonely highway many miles from Chalk Valley, RCMP Sergeant Dave Kreaver comes across a van crashed at the side of the road. The driver is anxious to leave the scene. But Kreaver discovers an unconscious teenaged girl in the van. Kreaver feels in his gut that the driver could be the killer, but his inquiries are ignored by a task force that’s in well over its head. And his supervisors tell him to back off. Kreaver’s in a cat and mouse game with a murderous psychopath, a deadly race against time with innocent victims in play. Operating alone and without official sanction, can he stop the Chalk Valley Killer before he claims more lives?