Hidden in Plain

A man wakes from a five-year coma in a hospital in Maine. He pulls the IV from his hand, puts on a doctor's coat, and walks out. By nightfall, the doctor is dead. Two shots - torso, then head.Forty miles south, a detective named Conner O'Conner catches the case. He recognizes the method. Two shots, same order, same patience - the signature of a killer responsible for twenty unsolved murders. A killer who went silent five years ago. A killer Conner has been chasing since his partner Suzanne was murdered on the same trail.The case was cold. Now it's breathing again.As Conner works forward from the hospital, pulling at records and alibis and a missing coma patient with no name, the killer works backward - erasing five years of vulnerability, destroying every thread that connects the bed to the bodies. They are moving toward each other through the same evidence, on opposite sides of the same door.What Conner doesn't know is that the door leads home.His stepfather disappeared six years ago. The man who married his mother after his father's murder. The man who raised him, put him through college, sat across from him at the kitchen table on Sunday mornings. The man who noticed he was left-handed and put a pair of scissors in the drawer without being asked.Somewhere in a sealed file with his dead partner's handwriting on it, the truth has been waiting. And the truth is not that the killer is a stranger.The truth is that the killer made him breakfast