This is Shane’s first book, and the debut of his national bestselling thriller series. It was named the nation’s best debut mystery by RT Book Reviews, and has been translated into German, Chinese, Slovakian and Turkish. He introduces the five main characters who will carry through the series—Patrol Officer Emily Thompson, Lieutenant and SWAT Commander Annie Bates, Chief of Police Kendall Cross, and Deputy Chief Hercules Branch from the Naperville Police; and Commander Martin Benedetti, Branch’s best friend and chief of detectives for the county sheriff’s department. Book and series are set in Naperville, a white-collar city 32 miles west of Chicago, with a population of 150,000. The serial killer, nicknamed “Unsub” after the FBI’s general term for “Unidentified Subject,” is from Emily’s childhood. The killer arranges his victims in the form of board games—Chutes and Ladders, Operation, Duck-Duck-Goose, nearly a dozen in all—that Emily played as a child, and the final game in the series is the one he’ll play as he watches her die.