A young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. Its as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life. Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyens stunning debut Shadow Man. Now caring for her murdered friends mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish challenge...