SummaryFormer FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a
profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation
operative—and not a moment too soon. His first
assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen
volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killer's
work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona
Summers shares the details of two other killings with eerie
similarities to Sam's case: The bodies in all three cases
have been carefully posed. And when a fourth victim is
discovered, the two investigators realize they're pursuing
the same twisted quarry.
Local parish priest Kevin Burch, Mercy Street founder Robert
Magellan's cousin, recognizes the posings for what they are:
The killer is staging the church's seven Acts of Mercy
("Feed the hungry, clothe the naked . . .") with the bodies
of his victims. But as Sam and Fiona race to prevent the
final three murders, taunting messages from their target
lead to the most chilling realization of all.
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