In a residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls.To the police, she herself is a mystery.She appears on no government records, has no past and can't even tell the police her own name.
Christened Jane Doe and suffering terrifying hallucinations, she is assigned to Nathan Fox, a forensic psychiatrist struggling with his own demons after witnessing his parents' murder as a child.Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity.
Then a sequence of brutal killings terrorizes the city and Fox learns that Jane is the only cryptic link between the unrelated victims.To solve the murders, discover who Jane is and diagnose her condition, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past...and his own.
After ten years in marketing and advertising Michael Cordy gave up a lucrative career to write novels. His first,The Miracle Strainwas published in 1997.Disneybought the film rights for $1.6 million and the novel reached no. 5 inThe Sunday TimesBestseller list. it has since been published in more than twenty-five languages and over forty countries.The Colour of Murderis his first novel for five years. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
