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In this psychological thriller, Jake Cole returns to his childhood home after his elderly father nearly kills himself by setting himself on fire and plowing through a plate-glass window. Jake’s father – a great American painter - is a man whose shadow Jake has tried to outrun since he was a boy. Now a contractor for the FBI who possesses a unique gift for recreating crime scenes, Jake is pulled into a hauntingly familiar double homicide investigation. He recognizes the artistic signature in the slayings and realizes that he is now must be after the same murderer who killed his mother when he was a child. Racing against time and a Category #5 hurricane, Jake sets out in a race to find a monster who kills his victims in an exceptionally grisly fashion. "FBI contractor Jake Cole deciphers the language of murderers by reconstructing three-dimensional crime scene models in his head, a talent that has left his nerves frayed and his psyche fragile. Jake returns to Montauk, New York, for the first time in a quarter of a century when his father, a renowned painter, lights himself ablaze and crashes through a plate-glass window. Once home, Jake is pulled into a gruesome local homicide investigation that echoes his mother's murder three decades earlier. As he sifts through the detritus of his father's madness, Jake discovers thousands of seemingly meaningless paintings stacked in the studio - a bizarre trail of dust-covered breadcrumbs the painter left as he tumbled down the rabbit hole of dementia. Breadcrumbs that Jake believes lead to the killer."--Publisher description For the first time in nearly thirty years, FBI consultant Jake Cole returns to his childhood home in Long Island to look after his estranged and elderly father. But soon, Jake finds himself investigating a murder at the request of local sheriff Mike Hauser. A mother and her young son have been tortured and killed. For Jake this case becomes personal - he recognises the killer's signature as the one left on his own mother, brutally murdered over thirty years ago. Jake was just a child and her murder was never solved. Racing against time, Jake and Hauser are on the hunt to find this monster - a serial killer who skins his victims alive. Could the Bloodman of Jake's nightmares be back?