Reaper

Dear Violet I am about to die. Thus begins a series of letters to noted Palm Beach astrologist Violet Day self-written epitaphs from elderly women later found brutally murdered.As the letters and murders make headlines Violets daughter Lorraine Day contacts her old friend former cop Ken Blackburn. As a detective on the Dallas force Blackburn developed an uncanny instinct for tracking down serial killers by predicting when they would strike again -- until that meeting in an alley with one deranged man who had eluded him for months a meeting that proved fatal to the killer and forced Blackburns suspension from the force.So convinced are Lorraine and Ken that they are dealing with a man who fits the profile of a serial killer Ken announces on a local talk show that he knows the killers identity. And then they wait hoping against hope that the killer falters and exposes himself before he kills again - because this time his target is the Day family itself.With a climax that will leave readers white-knuckled C. Terry Cline Jr. once again proves himself a master of psychological suspense.