New York Times bestselling author Ellie Marney returns to the world of Simon Noone with a morally complex psychological thriller about identity and memory, the limits of repentance, and whether monsters can truly change.

Dexter meets The Bourne Identity in this dark thriller by New York Times bestselling author Ellie Marney, where a man who forgot he was a monster must hunt the killer who remembers.

Private investigator Nomi Pace and her research assistant, Simon Noone, have an unusual partnership: She hunts murderers. He was one.

It’s 1987, Christmas in Manhattan, five years since a head injury wiped Simon’s memories of his life as a serial killer. He’s retreated into a quiet, careful existence, but it’s hard to atone for a past he can’t recall.

Nomi and Simon are deep in a complex missing persons investigation when a new case opens: Police officers are turning up dead, the crime scenes brutal, theatrical, and horribly familiar. Each recreates a murder Simon committed. And he’s been waking up in strange places with bloody hands and no recollection of what he’s done.

As Nomi and Simon race to uncover the truth, she wants to believe in the man he’s become. But Simon isn’t so sure. Is someone copying his old sins—a secret only Nomi knows—or is his killer instinct worming its way back to the surface?

Ellie Marney is an award-winning author of thrillers for teens and adults. Her titles include the first book in the Simon Noone series, No One Is Safe, as well as the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep trilogy, the ARA Historical Novel Prize-nominated The Killing Code, and many more. Her books have been published internationally and optioned for the screen.

Ellie has spent a lifetime researching in mortuaries, interviewing law enforcement officers and autopsy pathologists, and asking former spies how to make explosives from household items. Now she lives quite sedately in southeastern Australia with her family as she writes her next book.

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