KILLER INSTINCT: THE FILES OF AGENT CANDICE DELONG

Hailed as a real-life Clarice Starling, she’s tailed terrorists, profiled serial killers, and pursued kidnappers and rapists. She carried out the manhunt for the Uni bomber and investigated the notorious Tylenol murder case. But for FBI Special Agent Candice DeLong (Emmy winner Jean Smart, Designing Women), one of the most challenging—and terrifying—cases of her career was also the most personal.

Divorced from her unreliable husband and struggling to maintain the role of “perfect mother” to her nine-year-old son, Candice DeLong has devoted her heart and soul to the crusade against crime as one of the FBI’s most proficient criminal profilers despite sexism within the bureau. Reeling from the guilt of losing a young victim to a predator, and threatening to retire, Candice is soon lured back into the business when a middle-aged mother is raped, strangled, and left for dead with the killer’s bizarre calling card: a baby rattle forced down her throat. She’s only one in a bizarre series of rape slayings with the same m.o.

Then Candice’s best friend Kit (Joy Tanner, Acceptable Risk) falls victim to the same perpetrator, but the crime unfolds with one startling difference—Kit is left alive. It’s a baffling message from the murderer and a warning to Candice that the innocent shall be safe and only “bad” mothers will pay for their sins. With deliberate precision, the slayings continue—each one increasing Candice’s fear for her own life and the safety of her son. For in the killer’s eyes, she too has been deemed unfit and must pay for her sins, and like the others, she will not escape the wrath of a madman who’s ingeniously moving in for his most prized victim—the one woman courageous enough to find him, trap him, and silence him forever.

Inspired by the thrilling, true story of Candice DeLong, Killer Instinct is both a chilling journey into the mind of a killer and the fascinating story of a brave, tough, and resourceful woman who dared to venture there in search of justice.