Slipping into Darkness: A Mystery

Crime thrills from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sunrise Highway—"One of the best books I've read in a long, long time" (Stephen King).

When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer—Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl. Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession that would put him away until he was thirty-six.

Twenty years later, Julian is finally out of ...