The Red Rose Murders/The Coming Darkness

The Coming DarknessWhen an Austin madam is found bludgeoned to death, followed by a series of gruesome murders, Chief Detective Augustus Mallory is forced to venture into the twilight world of abnormal needs and perversions. What will the deaths of ... Read more

The Coming DarknessWhen an Austin madam is found bludgeoned to death, followed by a series of gruesome murders, Chief Detective Augustus Mallory is forced to venture into the twilight world of abnormal needs and perversions. What will the deaths of a few prostitutes reveal about the higher echelon of southern society?Unwillingly drawn into a hidden world, Mallory works to uncover a concealed room and the mysteries surrounding it. What had occurred during the clandestine meetings behind the masks? What was the secret someone was willing to protect with so many lives?In an existence where kidnapping, betrayal, and revenge are commonplace-where death and life straddle an imaginary line of lies and duplicity-all is illusion.The Red Rose MurdersChief Detective Augustus Mallory faces one of the most bizarre and baffling cases of his career. When he transfers to the quiet East Texas community of Tyler, he never expects to be confronted with a serial killer. Facing with a labyrinth of conflicting clues, he struggles to unravel the workings of a psychotic mind and unmask the killer behind the "Red Rose" murders. Pagan Mallory wants to become a detective like her uncle, but when she is caught tampering with crucial evidence by FBI agent Demetri Ranoir, her ambition comes to an abrupt end. Threatened with jail time and the termination of her uncle''s brilliant career, she offers herself as bait to trap the depraved psychopath. Less