The Lives We Take

“Rarely is an author so skilled at portraying such unremitting evil and the poignant, human side of his characters in a single tale.” —Jeffery Deaver

“17.” L.A. detective Morris Brick knows the number all too well. It was the gruesome signature the Nightmare Man left next to his victims’ bodies. Brick’s father was the first to investigate the killings. Five women were butchered before the perpetrator vanished. Seventeen years later he resurfaced—to kill again in the same depraved ways. Now another seventeen years have elapsed. Brick knows in his gut that it’s time for the Nightmare Man to reawaken. But even Brick can’t imagine the madman’s true agenda. Or just how terrifying the sleepless nights are going to get in the City of Angels . . .

Praise for Dave Zeltserman’s Morris Brick crime

"Equal parts Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, and Stephen King. The Lives We Take will leave you shaking . . . with fear, excitement, and the uncontrollable compulsion to keep on reading." —Lee Goldberg

“Grisly fun. It’s James Ellroy meets Alfred Hitchcock on the psychotic side of the street.” —Paul Levine

“Compelling, thrilling, and frightening.”—Vincent Zandri