The Chosen Prey

Description for THE CHOSEN PREY by William Brashler:

WHO BUT A MADMAN WOULD APPOINT HIMSELF "ANGEL OF DEATH"?

For generations they had come to Beach Haven---the Weintraubs, the Cohens, The Siegels---to escape the hot suburbs of Chicago, to savor the pleasures of summer on the cool eastern shores of Lake Michigan.

Never had there been a hint of trouble with the local community---until little Larry Weintraub's brutalized body was found in a shallow grave, until---one by one ---their little sons were disappearing, dying, until the golden calm of summer exploded in a conflagration that set man against woman, urban against rural, compassion against politics---and madness against sanity...