Six Degrees

She sat at her desk burying, her face in her folded hands to cover what she looked like...The dark circles explained everything. Stress, exhaustion, sexual frustration. She could hear her sister lecturing her right now, if only she was with her. She was always the positive one.

A frantic search for a killer leads one woman to make a horrifying connection in Beth Thibault's adrenaline-pumping debut novel, Six Degrees.

One of Alexis Garrett's favorite games to play with her sister when they were young was always "six degrees of separation." Years later, Alexis, now a successful detective in her quiet Maine town, will find herself playing the game all over again-only this time, the stakes are much higher.

A serial killer is on the loose, targeting women before brutally assaulting and murdering them. But these are no ordinary murders, as the killer makes a habit of calling his next intended victim in order to taunt them about what is coming next.

As Alexis frantically searches for clues before the killer strikes again, she slowly realizes that the victims are all connected in a bizarre scheme that leads to the maniac's true target...