Some places seem too beautiful to be touched by horror. Summit Lake, nestled in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, is that kind of place. But two weeks ago, Becca Eckersley, a first-year law student and daughter of a powerful attorney, was brutally murdered there. Now the town is reeling with grief, and the police are baffled.


有些美麗的地方，美得無法和恐怖扯上邊，位在北卡羅萊納州藍嶺山脈的薩米特湖就是如此聖地。然而，兩週前，一位就讀法律系一年級、父親是大律師的女學生兒貝卡，在山中慘遭殺害。整個城鎮頓時陷入一片愁雲慘霧，警方也對此案感到萬分困惑。