The doll maker - Richard Montanari

Mr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite. He would do anything for his genteel true love Anabelle. And he is a psychopath.

A
quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her
young daughter. And there she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly
painted bench. Strangled. Beside her is a formal invite to a tea dance
in a week's time.

Seven days later, two more young victims are
discovered in a disused house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is
an identical invite. This time, though, there is something extra waiting
for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano.

A delicate porcelain doll. It's a message. And a threat.

With
Marseille and Anabelle stalking the city, Detectives Byrne and Balzano
have just seven days to find the link between the murders before another
innocent child is snatched from its streets.