His first two victims are prostitutes, but when he turns his hand to Jillian Bondurant, the daughter of a billionaire, Minnesota calls in FBI agent John Quinn, world-famous expert on serial killers and related ilk. He’s the “Cremator”: just another “sadistic sexual serial killer” with low self-esteem and an abused childhood behind him. After they die, he stabs them in a ritual pattern, slices off their tattoos, and burns their bodies beyond recognition to relive his moments of triumph, he audiotapes their screams for mercy and death. While they’re still alive, the attacker sticks knives into the soles of their feet, then cuts off their nipples and aureoles. Someone in Minneapolis is tying down women, then raping, torturing, and killing them. Hoag continues to exploit the theme of mutilated women ( A Thin Dark Line, 1997, etc.) in a romance thriller about the hunt for a serial killer.
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