Deeper Than the Dead

California, 1985. Four Children, Playing in the Woods Behind Their School, Stumble Upon a Woman's Body, Eyes and Mouth Glued Shut. Close Behind the Children is Their Teacher, Anne Navarre, Horrified by This Gruesome Discovery That Marks the End of the Children's Innocence. What She Doesn't yet Realize is That This Will Also Mark the End of Innocence for an Entire Community, As the Complex Ties That Bind Families and Friends Are Tested in the Wake of the Killer's Ever More Devastating Activity. Vince Leone, a Pioneering Fbi Investigator, is Called in to Try to Unlock the Mind of the Killer Using the Fledgling Technique of Profiling - a Strategy That Pulls Him Ever Deeper Into the Lives of the Children and Their Young Teacher. Secrets Spill Out, Reputations Shatter and People Get Desperate As the Lives of These Very Different Children Are Bound Tighter and Tighter Together by the Suspicion That Falls Over Their Families. Vince and Anne Know the Lives of More Women Are at Stake - but They