Letter 26

Psychological horror meets suspense in this chilling tale of a unique aspect of the mortuary world, and how emotional trauma guides some toward goodness, and drives others to kill...When Abby Carlson’s job title as a dietitian comes to mind now, it’s accompanied by a looming threat: the serial kidnapper and suspected murderer known to the media as PK—The Profession Killer. He’s targeting women in and around Minneapolis based on the first letter of their jobs, and he’s ripe to pick a “D” victim. He follows his gruesome calling card—preserving and posing the corpses per their professions—with posting his exploits on Instagram. But the threat is abstract in a city as big as Abby’s, especially since the posts are immediately taken down...until she finds herself drugged in the back of a van, the latest headline.In response to the kidnapping, Detective Cal Randall is called back early from mandated medical leave. Working with the FBI, he’s been on the trail of PK since the kidnappings kicked off. Despite what’s become crippling anxiety that he still has to work to control, there’s no choice about where he needs to be. A demented killer must be stopped, and Abby—the last of his remaining letters—must be saved.