The Third Victim : A Novel

A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregonamp;mdash;tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky oneamp;mdash;two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead.

The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive and the owner, Alex Masonamp;mdash;a prominent local attorneyamp;mdash;is arrested. Although he loudly insists upon his innocence, h…