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Final Edge: Can a woman be born a natural killer or would her environment turn her into a killer? Final Edge answers the question, or does it..........

When Detective Lucas Stonecoat and his former lover, Psychiatrist Dr. Meredith Sanger each receive a package sporting human remains it is by far not a woman they are seeking as the murderer.

When all roads lead to nowhere, the duo enlists the missing person bureau. Once the missing persons list is narrowed to three persons, the body parts are linked to Myra Lourdes, a woman who was listed as missing after apparently showing her car to a couple. Without any background connecting the Lourdes woman to either Lucas or Meredith, the road becomes a twisting, turning path of supposition.

Stonecoat and Sanger are reduced to checking anything which presents itself as a clue; beginning with the return address of the initial package of sliced internal organs shipped to Stonecoat, a Catholic Orphanage.

Slowly, a picture develops, Sanger realized that the murderer is not a male as the team first anticipated, but rather a duo headed by a young female, still in her teens. The female had grown up in an orphanage, because Sanger, as an eighteen year old intern for the child protection agency, had talked the mother to place the six-month-old, yet unnamed infant, in the orphanage while she worked to get her life together. The mother never returned to claim her child, and no family ever adopted her. Now, she was determined to give Meredith Sanger the same type of life she had, one devoid of friends and family, one in which every turn made Meredith question her own sanity.

Time after time as the newly formed task force closes in on the killer, she slips through their fingers; leaving the police force looking like thgey cannot handle their job, and setting up Meredith to look like a crazed killer herself. The action starts on page one, and doesn’t stop till the end. Each time you think the killer will be captured, she seems to instead set another trap for Meredith, slowly killing everyone she knows and loves, including the hero of the “Edge” series, Lucas Stonecoat.

Although I have been a fan of Walker’s “Instinct” series, I must say that by far the "Edge" series keeps you reading.