Shiver

A serial killer is turning New Orleans into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs - no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. It s a very sick game, and it s only just begun. Abby Chastain left New Orleans long ago and for good reason. Now she s back where she feels watched, as if the devil himself is scraping a fingernail along her spine. It doesn t help that Detective Reuben Montoya is convinced she s somehow the key to unlocking the murders a mystery that has something to do with Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, a decaying old asylum where unspeakable crimes were once committed and a human predator may still wait. As more bodies are found in gruesome, staged scenarios, Montoya and Abby are in a desperate race to stop a killer whose terrifying crimes are bringing them ever nearer to a shocking revelation. For the past is never completely gone. Its sins must be avenged . . .