A barbaric crime ushers a demented evil out of the shadows!

On a dreary rain-soaked late September morning, Detective Sergeant Mickey MacKinnon, following up on a tip, finds a decomposing mutilated body on a rural property. The finding sets in motion one of the most bizarre and tragic murder investigations of MacKinnon's career as a homicide detective. As he pursues his inquiry, he not only learns that the perpetrator of this heinous crime is clever, methodical and seemingly a step ahead of the police, but suspects that he has killed before.

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Creating portraits in death and playing cat and mouse with the police are perverted ways the murderer deals with the demons which haunt him relentlessly. However, this self-styled ghastly therapy brings him face-to-face with a challenge which ultimately forces him into a life-or-death situation.