Author of the books that inspired True Blood on HBO and Midnight, Texas on NBC
тАЬNot many novels, and no mysteries, have shaken me as brutally as A SECRET RAGE...Far more than the story of a crime, this is a scream of fury, of brutal humiliation...It strips bare the latent rage concealed within the gentlest of exteriors.тАЭ
тАФLos Angeles Times
тАЬExtraordinary. Powerful.тАЭ
тАФLibrary Journal
Dropped by her agent, New York City model Nickie Callahan decides to start overтАФmoving back to the South to finish school at Houghton College in Knolls, Tennessee. But Knolls isnтАЩt the quiet town Nickie remembers from her youth. A rapist is targeting the women of Houghton, growing bolder and more vicious with each brutal attack, leaving the community gripped by fear.
When the violence affects Nickie personally, she moves from fear to furyтАФresolving to catch the rapist at any cost. After joining forces with another survivor, Nickie discovers that the attacks are not randomтАФthe rapist knows his victims. With that small clue, and an ironclad determination to stop him from striking again, Nickie begins the grim search for the relentless assailant hiding in plain sight.
A Secret Rage is a gripping stand-alone mystery from Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire series, as well as the award-nominated Aurora Teagarden Series, Lily Bard Series, and Harper Connelly Series.