SERIAL RITES (Atlanta Homicide Squad Book 3)

The Bone Collector meets Criminal Minds Atlanta Homicide Sergeant Malcolm X. Hobbs’ strength: Acute intuition into human nature. His weakness: Loss of faith in God. Despite his immense ability, he’s on the edge and contemplates quitting. The mystery of Hobbs is his sanity: Will his spirit and soul unite in time to resolve his trauma, or will they divide too late to stop him from experiencing the peace of God as they wage a will to live vs. will to die war?... Meanwhile, an enigmatic brute spews his frenzy across a broad spectrum of victims. Terror squeezes the southern metropolis, which is unsure of who, what, when, where, why, and how the perpetrator will strike his masterpiece next. When Hobbs and his first-rate team of homicide investigators, nicknamed ‘The X-Men’, discover the catalyst to the murders, they must gaze into the warped psychosis of a meticulous and motivated predator known as ‘The Profiler.’ The detectives combat an evil that rivals the city-wide panic that also gripped a nation in the late seventies and early eighties: The Atlanta Child Murders. The city’s confidence in the high-profile detectives is on trial by this killer who intends to sin. Don’t get caught in the crosshairs of the mind of this psychopath. Period.