When a madmen begins abducting women and blinding them, leaving them barely alive, Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes joins forces with FBI agents recruited by the wealthy brother of one of the victims.

Jonathan Santlofer has brilliantly reinvented the crime novel, and he returns with his most gripping and astonishing suspense novel to date: The Murder Notebook. An acclaimed visual artist whose numerous awards include two National Endowment for the Arts painting grants-and whose work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum, among other publications-Santlofer combines gripping tales of murder and detection with stunning...

Determined to find closure, forensic artist Jenna Thompson, haunted by the brutal murder of her family, returns to Nashville where she is faced with a new horror when she helps Detective Rick Morgan identify the remains of a young child that is linked to a recent spate of killings - and her past.

FBI forensic artist Fitzpatrick questions the guilt of a man about to be executed for her father's murder twenty years earlier.