Grim Reaper · Lastanza New Orleans Police Novels (9781301162451)

Terror prowls the Louisiana night. — From the seedy French Quarter to the banks of Lake Pontchartrain, all of New Orleans is paralyzed by a series of gruesome, sadistic murders. The unsuspecting victims are all women, the young, innocent and beautiful from every walk of life. In the streets, in the parks, behind locked doors, there is no escaping the insane killer's maniacal fury. To the media he is "The Slasher"... but only the madman knows his own true identity: Jack of the Night.

Jack the Ripper.

The burden falls on Detective Dino LaStanza to stem the hideous tide of death sweeping through the terrorized southern metropolis. As a haunted young policeman's desperate manhunt is suddenly transformed from homicide investigation to a vendetta of blood.