Irene Kelly, reporter and amateur sleuth, tracks a murderer obsessed with keeping the past from interfering with the future.

Best-selling author Jan Burke-a winner of the Edgar, Macavity, and Agatha awards-presents an "intelligent tale of danger and vengeance" (Publishers Weekly). In Dear Irene, intrepid investigative reporter Irene Kelly begins receiving letters from a psychotic pen pal. It seems someone is bent on creating a real life Greek tragedy-and in this play, everyone is supposed to die.

When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of phone tips and remembered clues; she even anticipates the renewed pain of the anguished parents. What she doesn't expect is that the articles will set off a murderous chain reaction -- and put her life in peril. Perhaps one of the more tragic disappearances in recent Las Piernas history was that of Jenny...

Irene Kelly fights for her life in this blood-chilling sequel to Bones. Despite her reporter's nose for trouble, her life has almost returned to normal, the Las Piernas News Express wobbles along in defiance of its financial woes, and with the help of her husband, Frank, and a good therapist, she has recovered from the debilitating post traumatic stress disorder that haunted her after her near fatal encounter with notorious serial killer Nick Parrish....

Winner of the Edgar, Macavity and Agatha Awards, Jan Burke is one of America's most admired mystery writers. In this intense sequel to the best-seller Goodnight, Irene, as the race for District Attorney heats up the mudslinging begins, and soon one candidate's son is branded a satanist. He claims innocence, but chilling events soon point intrepid news reporter Irene toward a greater conspiracy.

Reporter Irene Kelly is given permission to accompany a team of law enforcement experts on a grisly journey to the grave of Julia Sayre after serial murderer Nick Parrish agrees to lead them to the site in exchange for a reduction in his death sentence, but Irene soon comes to suspect Nick has other plans in mind and must think fast to keep from becoming his next victim.