Publisher's Synopsis
A REAL-LIFE HALLOWEEN HORROR SPURS A NATIONWIDE SEARCH FOR A PERVERTED MADMAN!Private eye Alton Rhode is angered when a close friend is gunned down while handing out Halloween candy! Then, a spate of child murders shocks the community. Rhode uncovers a connection between the crimes. What he learns is scarcely believable -- and puts him in the sights of the killer hiding in plain sight.***"ANOTHER ALTON RHODE STUNNER FROM DE MARIA." (John Crudele, New York Post); "A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY." (Florida Weekly); "A MASTER OF THRILLER DIALOGUE." (Washington Independent Review of Books)***"This was another terrific whodunit in the Alton Rhode mystery series. In each mystery, the methodology used by Rhode to solve the crime is completely plausible. That is one of the most fascinating points to these stories." (Amazon Review)