From the New York Times bestselling duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes their latest--and spookiest--yet: a small town in Kansas, a series of grisly murders, and the depraved and hidden evil within. Enter the new American Gothic...

Medicine Creek, Kansas. In a town where nothing changes, where Main Street is a two-block stretch of old and dusty businesses, a peculiar and ghastly murder has taken place, the body mutilated and placed carefully in an elaborate tableau in the middle of the endless cornfields. Now cool-eyed and smooth FBI Agent Pendergast arrives to discover a community he must turn inside out to find the killer who can only be one of them...