TY - BOOK AU - Hoag,Tami TI - Down the darkest road T2 - Oak Knoll SN - 052595239X U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Dutton KW - United States KW - Federal Bureau of Investigation KW - Officials and employees KW - Fiction KW - Leone, Vince (Fictitious character) KW - Mendez, Tony (Fictitious character) KW - Forensic sciences KW - Criminal profilers KW - Abduction KW - Missing persons KW - Children KW - Crimes against KW - Nineteen eighties KW - Santa Barbara (Calif.) KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Series added by cataloger N2 - Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called "profiling" to put an end to the trauma. "Secrets to the Grave" brought Leone's teacher-turned-child- advocate wife, Anne, into a central role. Together with Vince and local sheriff 's deputy Tony Mendez, she solved an Oak Knoll murder with a particularly challenging mystery: The victim never existed. And now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this series. Through Leone's pioneering, science-based investigatory skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work. And through the chilling case at the heart of Down the Darkest Road , she hooks ever more readers into the meticulously crafted, all-too-terrifying world of Oak Knoll, where the scariest secrets of all can be found... ER -