the Devil's Prayer: a Tessa Rourke Thriller: Former FBI Profiler Who Must Unmask Serial Killer Granting Wishes People Say Out Loud Before He Answers One of Hers

THE DEVIL'S PRAYER >He makes rooms quiet for a living. He is the only man alive who knows what you said inside one. Julian Vance is cheap, punctual and forgettable. He soundproofs boardrooms, therapy offices, nurseries, and the small rooms in a courthouse where people sit and wait. He leaves his boots at the door without being asked. He grows tomatoes badly and gives them away in paper sacks with the receipt. He also writes down what you say when you believe the room is empty. When a tired man says the unsayable thing about the person he cannot escape, Vance transcribes it by hand in capital letters. Then he takes them both. The speaker goes into a chair with his eyes held open. The other one goes in front of him. The recording plays on a loop while Vance performs it to the letter, for as long as it takes. He has done this four times, in four jurisdictions, across five years. Nobody has connected any of it. Tessa Rourke has not set foot in a county building since April. She sleeps in the front room with every light in the house burning. Then a detective she has not spoken to in seven months drives up the switchback with a bootleg recording from a conference suite in Lake Oswego, and twenty minutes in she can tell him how big the room was, where the man stood, and that he had been inside that building lawfully before anybody died. Then a package arrives at her mailbox. A record cut from a sealed federal wire nine years old, with her own voice on it, and one line on the label in draughtsman's capitals. Name the altar, Supplicant. She spends six weeks answering it. She is right about the killer. She is catastrophically wrong about the name. The Devil's Prayer is the second book in the Archangel series and reads as a standalone thriller. Scroll up, buy your copy, and find out what one sentence costs.