Slipping into Darkness

Crime thrills from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sunrise Highway—“One of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time” (Stephen King).
 

When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer—Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl. Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession tha...