From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner comes a harrowing new thriller: Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten but even she couldnt have anticipated this latest request--to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks time. No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her fathers daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning waived all appeals. She had called herself death but people called her the devil. Despite the medias chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for the Beautiful Butcher who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting their throats. Now with only twenty-one days left to live Pierson has finally received a lead on the whereabouts of the sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago and she needs Frankies help to find her. The Beautiful Butchers offer: When was the last time your search ended with finding the living? Unable to resist the chance for a rescue Frankie takes on Piersons request. Twelve years ago five-year old Leilani went missing in Hawaii. The main suspect? Piersons tech mogul ex-boyfriend Sanders MacManus. Now on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific--the site of MacManuss latest vanity project--fresh evidence has appeared. In order to learn the truth and possibly save a young womans life Frankie must go undercover at the isolated base camp. Her challenge: A dozen strangers. Countless dangerous secrets. Zero means of calling for help. And then the storm rolls in...
