Crime author Ann Rule wrote, " Smith is a cop who's been there, and a writer on his way straight up . . . chillingly authentic." Dear Departed - losing a sister is devastating. Finding a killer is deadly. She arrived home only seconds after her sister was murdered. And the killer was still in the house . . . Detective Sergeant Natalie Collins was a decorated homicide veteran, but nothing could have prepared her for what she found in her apartment that night; her beautiful sister, murdered. And the killer was still there, and suddenly Natalie was fighting for her life. But just before she met the same fate as her sister, she was rescued by a mysterious bearded man. But no one believed her story, and now Natalie is on the run. "You might want to lock the doors before starting this one. Enes Smith possessses a gut-level understanding of the word 'evil' and it shows."