John Sandford

Convinced a missing heiress is dead, Lucas Davenport searches for her body. His hunt connects him to the Twin Cities' Goth community, a group of young people fascinated by death and darkness. The deeper he digs, the closer he gets to the killer.

When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing...