Laurie Morans ektemann blir funnet brutal drept. Og bare tre år gamle Timmy har sett ansiktet til morderen. Fem år senere har Timmy fortsatt mareritt om morderens stirrende blå øyne. Laurie bekymrer seg over truslene morderen kom med i det han flyktet fra åstedet, "Fotell moren din at hun er den neste. Og deretter er det din tur". Laurie jobber nå som produsent for en tv serie som tar opp uløste drapssaker. Serien starter med det uoppklarte drapet på sosietetskvinnen Betsy Powell. Hun ble funnet kvalt i sin egen seng for tjue år siden. Det oppsiktsvekkende drapet vekket reaksjoner over hele landet den gangen. Laurie er sikker på at gjenåpningen av saken vil føre til nye spor. Og det skal vise seg at et par blå øyne følger ekstra nøye med.
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When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams. Laurie is haunted by more—the killer's threat to her son as he fled the scene: "Tell your mother she's next, then it's your turn . . ."
Now Laurie is dealing with murder again, this time as the producer of a true-crime, cold-case television show. The series will launch with the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Betsy Powell. Betsy, a socialite, was found suffocated in her bed after a gala celebrating the graduation of her daughter and three friends. The sensational murder was news nationwide. Reopening the case in its lavish setting and with the cooperation of the surviving guests that night, Laurie is sure to have a hit on her hands. But when the estranged friends begin filming, it becomes clear each is hiding secrets . . . small and large.
