This police procedural grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. Detective Salome Delany is back, tangled in a web of grisly crimes, haunted pasts, and psychological torment that feel ripped straight from a horror movie’s darkest corners.
Following her high-stakes victory in When the Bough Breaks, Sal faces new demons: a relentless boss, fractured family ties, and a swirl of violent players including her exonerated stepfather Wulf Hagman and the vengeful Theo Myers, a man obsessed with a medieval torturer known as Blindworm—whose revival in a cosplay game blurs the line between history and nightmare.
Mark’s sharp, rhythmic prose slices through the tension in rapid-fire chapters, each packed with blood, mystery, and gut-wrenching suspense. From a chilling prologue of a man tortured by an unseen creature to a “chamber of horrors” that pushes the grotesque to the limit, the story ratchets up the dread as Sal races toward the truth about her mother’s murder.
This is police procedural meets Grand Guignol—gritty, gripping, and guaranteed to keep you turning pages deep into the night.
Genre: Mystery
