Dark in Death Spiral-Bound | 2018-07-31

It was a stab in the dark. During a screening of Psycho in midtown Manhattan, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the Times Square crowds. To Chanel's best friend, who'd just slipped out for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel's blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.

As Lt. Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned yet oddly personal, she gets a tip from an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime--from the pages of her own book. A recent strangulation of a sex worker resembles a scene from her writing as well. This killer may be finding inspiration in someone else's imagination, forcing victim after victim to play an unwitting role in a criminal's deranged private drama--and only Eve can put a stop to a creative impulse gone horribly, destructively wrong.