First Evidence: A Novel - Softcover

Colin Cellars is a senior crime-scene investigator for the Oregon State Patrol. After the apparent murder of his longtime friend Bob Dawson, Cellars uses the latest cutting-edge equipment to collect the bullets, blood, and other physical evidence. But this is no ordinary murder case--a series of weird, unexplainable events take over. Shadowy shapes lurk in the woods around Dawson's cabin; a lovely woman who looks exactly like the girl he used to know many years before reappears; an envelope full of pebbles moves on its own across a desk; corpses and cop cars disappear from one place and reappear elsewhere. All too soon we realize that we're out of the real world and into The X-Files. The truth may be out there, but most of Goddard's scientific sense is long gone. Still, readers who enjoy their thrillers served up with a good helping of the supernatural will enjoy First Evidence.

BUT WHAT IF ONE NIGHT YOU MAKE CONTACT WITH A CRIME SCENE SO TERRIFYING, NO ONE ON EARTH CAN EXPLAIN IT?

It begins at a chaotic crime scene in the deep woods of the Pacific Northwest -- site of a reported shoot-out. Investigator Colin Cellars cannot find a trace of perpetrator or victim -- or even confirm that anyone has been killed. As he doggedly pursues the case, he realizes there is far more at stake here than murder. Someone -- something? -- will stop at nothing to prevent him from discovering the truth. For the truth is not "out there". It is locked away in Cellars's own evidence file. The evidence points to a killer far outside Cellars's experience -- far outside any earthly experience. But who will believe one maverick cop?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Balefire comes a chilling tale of murder, forensic detection, and vivid speculation, pitting a unique crime scene investigator against a culprit who may be unlike any this world ever spawned....