Nina Herrera is the woman who managed to escape from a mysterious serial killer known as Cipher—and then to eliminate him. Now she is part of the FBI profiling team.
…Mother, father, and newborn daughter—everyone is dead. The eight-day-old baby was strangled; the man was shot in the heart; the woman lay down in the bathtub and shot herself in the temple. Everything looks like a double murder and suicide.
But it isn’t. This is the calling card of a new serial killer. Or is he new?
Nina Herrera and her colleagues from the Behavioral Analysis Unit quickly discover that he is hunting… 28 years ago. He kills across the whole country, and every crime scene reminds of the terrible legend of La Llorona—the ghost of a crying woman. The legend that terrified Nina in her childhood, when she was a helpless child.
The staging is so good that even now nobody has managed to connect these cases. And the strangest thing is that murders occur every leap year—on February 29…