Show of Evil
"A TENSE, TINGLING PUZZLE." --New York Daily News It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In a small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour--with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head--forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismembered years before by the angelic-looking altar boy, Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom then-defense attorney Martin Vail saved from the electric chair . . . . "A CRACKLING GOOD YARN." --Larry King, USA Today Now Vail is Chicago's chief prosecutor, facing the nightmare of his life. If Stampler has been locked away in a high-security institution for the past ten years, how could he have killed Linda Balfour? Then another altar boy turns up dead with a similar inscription in blood on the back of his head. If Aaron Stampler isn't committing these killings, who is? Martin Vail's career--maybe even his life--hangs on the answer. . . . "A HIGH-OCTANE LEGAL THRILLER . . . [A] SCARY READ." --Kirkus Reviews