By the River's Edge: A True Story of Identity and Serial Murder

The decades-long manhunt for a serial killer takes a stunning turn in a haunting and harrowing true crime shocker by Gregg Olsen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell. In 1990 in Washington state, the bodies of Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe, and Kathy Brisbois were found on the banks of the Spokane River.They were part of a close-knit alliance of sex workers whose oath to protect each other was, in the end, hopeless.For twenty-two years their brutal murders went unsolved. In 2012, a DNA cold hit pointed to Douglas Perry. A repeat assault offender, Douglas was currently incarcerated in Carswell, Texas.But there was a twist: The facility was for female prisoners.The man authorities hunted for decades was now Donna Perry.Her gender reassignment not only helped to mask the evil deeds of the past, it ended a life of childhood traumas and a pent-up rage unleashed on nearly thirty victims, according to Donna herself.Through total reinvention, she believed she’d finally slayed t