Absolute Fear

- Blurb -

Now repackaged and reissued nearly fifteen years after its original release, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson' s pulse-pounding novel--featuring two of her most acclaimed characters, New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya --takes readers into the heart of fear, as a series of ritual slayings draw a psychology student back to a decaying asylum. . . Eve Renner loved Cole Dennis--until the moment he tried to kill her. That was three months ago, when Eve was lured to a cabin where she found an old friend brutally murdered. Eve is almost positive it was Cole' s face she saw right before she was shot. But her memories were too shaky to stand up to trial. Cole is a free man again. And a new string of killings has begun. The murders all link back to Our Lady of Virtues, the asylum where Eve' s father worked as a doctor. She wandered those hallways as a child, exploring hidden rooms and chambers, too young to understand what was happening there. Now, with every victim found, each body tattooed with a number, the pieces of a deadly puzzle fall into place--and all point back to Eve and the ruins of the once-grand hospital. Detective Reuben Montoya and his partner, Rick Bentz, once convinced of Cole' s guilt, now suspect a deeper evil at work. Eve knows she has little choice but to return to Our Lady of Virtues--and to trust Cole in her search for answers. But as Eve' s memories gradually return, they only lead her closer to danger, toward the final, meticulously planned act of a killer obsessed with vengeance--and with her.