The Last to Know

In a picture-perfect Westchester suburb, a young mother watches her quiet haven dissolve into a hunting ground.

Townsend Heights is the perfect small town, just the kind of place Tasha Banks longed for when she left her big-city career for full-time motherhood. But now her dream is turning into a nightmare as a serial killer stalks Tasha's friends.

It begins when a mother from Gymboree vanishes on an afternoon run through High Ridge Park, abandoning her infant in a stroller.

At each fresh scene, cryptic nursery-rhyme puzzles are left behind, warning of a stalker who knows every family routine. Danger hides behind ordinary suburban courtesies as an intimate threat circles closer to Tasha’s doorstep.

One by one they are dying in horrific ways, and terror is transforming her peaceful existence into one of fear and foreboding . . . where evil lurks behind the mask of a familiar face—a face that may be the last one Tasha ever sees.

• Small Town Setting: Behind the manicured colonials and dead-end lanes of Townsend Heights, picket fences and autumn festivals conceal strained marriages, illicit affairs, and hidden obsessions.
• Domestic Suspense: With her ambitious husband stranded in Manhattan for endless client meetings, Tasha is left alone to protect three young children in a house that no longer feels secure.
• Psychological Thriller: An ambitious local reporter tracks clues the police have missed, unearthing dark rivalries and scandalous secrets that connect the victims to the town’s most prominent families.
• Also by This Author: The Good Sister, Blood Red and The Other Family.