When three women are brutally murdered in four nights, private detective John Duval, ex-lieutenant commander in Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for the sexual killer stalking Portsmouth's silent hours....
Set in the world of bugs where spiders are the cops, a detective boards a seaplane to San Francisco after finally capturing his arch nemesis, but a murder on his flight draws him into a plot that threatens both the human and bug worlds....
Sequel to Rob Lowe's 2018 The Bad Seed, follows now 15-year-old Emma, as she is sent off to boarding school where a new girl seems to know Emma's secrets, leading Emma to to slip back to her old ways....
