Hannibal Lecter, eat your heart out. There's a new psychopath on the loose, one who carves his double-crucifix signature into the flesh of his victims ...
As terrifyingly suspenseful as anything from the pens of Jeffery Deaver and Kathy Reichs, The Crucifix Killer introduces thriller fans to a new sleuth in Robert Hunter. The Los Angeles homicide detective is forced to think the unthinkable after the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the forest. She's been stripped naked, her body strung between two posts and the skin savagely peeled from her face – while she was still alive. Her nape bears the signature of the Crucifix Killer, except that psychopath was caught and executed two years ago, wasn't he?
Either Hunter has a copycat on his hands, one who somehow knows intricate details of the earlier killings, or the original murderer is still out there and ready to resume his depraved work.