Open House

Each victim is young, attractive, and alone. Each one dies with a clean puncture would to the heart. And each one is found with a macabre memento, a brightly colored papier-mache gondola carefully placed on her head. For a city where fear never sleeps, it is a nightmare that only a single, savage psychopath can inspire. For the perplexed cop who himself conceals an outsider's pain, it is the one case that must be cracked. For the beautiful career woman, it is a date with a seductive, newfound admirer. And the night in her life that could be her most terrifying as well as her last.