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How do you catch a killer when no one believes that a crime has even been committed?

Detective Damien Drake is back, but after what happened with the Butterfly Killer, he's no longer associated with the NYPD.

Now Drake heads his own PI firm, which specializes in dealing with paranoid housewives and rich suburbanites suspicious that their nannies are stealing their silverware.

That is until a visitor comes to him with a series of photographs of dead people. The problem is, no one believes that they have actually been murdered.

Some don't even believe that the people in the photos are dead.

When the first body is found, Damien thinks that he finally has the lead they need to solve these crimes, which might be the workings of the most prolific serial killer in the history of the United States.
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