From bestselling author John Lutz comes a lightning-paced thriller of a city gripped by a killer's savage reign of terror. Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged—brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes, by someone whose modus operandi is as horrifying as anything NYPD Detectives Ben Stack and Rica Lopez have ever seen. As Stack and Lopez investigate the cruel deaths, they have no idea that they are being watched from the shadows--observed by a cunning murderer picking up all the clues necessary to stay one step ahead of the police while perfecting a deadly craft. And when a pattern slowly emerges, the detectives realize that the killings aren't the random acts of a maniac, but the personal campaign of someone bent on retribution. . . someone who's been watching closely and knows their case too well. Someone whose vengeance will burn forever.
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"I checked this out because I like the reader, Scott Brick, and it wasn't disappointing. He has a great voice. This was a good mystery. Clues were laid out, but I didn't figure it out under the investigators did. "
— Missmath144 (4 out of 5 stars)
" Wonderful book by Lutz and one of the few I've read that didn't have a retired cop as the main character. It kept me guessing till almost the end on the guilty party! "
— Kay, 9/5/2010" As always, a thoroughly enjoyable book by Lutz. I find his characters thrilling and the plots always have twists in them. "
— Jenn, 11/14/2008" Kutz, John-NIGHT WATCHER, THE-G- <br/>Killing by fire, saw the killer coming, too long "
— LJ, 9/19/2007John Lutz is the author of more than forty novels and two hundred short stories and is a past president of Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America. He is the recipient of the Edgar Award and the Shamus Award. His novel SWF Seeks Same was made into the movie Single White Female, starring Bridget Fonda. He is the author of two private eye series and divides his time between homes in St. Louis, Missouri, and Sarasota, Florida.
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.