Now in mass market paperback for the first time in more than a decade,
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson's pulse-pounding
novel--featuring two of her most acclaimed characters, New Orleans
detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya --takes readers into the heart
of fear, as a series of ritual slayings draw a psychology student back
to a decaying asylum...
EVERY SERIAL KILLER . . .
A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are
killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their
bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old
asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the
calling card of a new kind of fear.
IS SEARCHING FOR . . .
Eve Renner knows Our Lady of Virtues Hospital well. As the daughter of
one of its doctors, she spent her childhood exploring its secrets
chambers, hidden rooms, and forbidden passageways. Now, somewhere in the
decaying asylum lies the key to a betrayal from the past whose echoes
are being felt with a vengeance--a crime beyond imagining that seems to
lead to Eve herself.
THE PERFECT VICTIM . . .
As each new body is found and forgotten, memories surface, and Eve must
race to put together a deadly puzzle, one terrifying piece at a time. A
killer is watching, planning, luring her back to the ruins of Our Lady
and the shocking truths hidden there. For the sins of the past must be
revealed, and the price paid--in blood . . .
