He considers himself an artist... His medium is murder. Someone is killing young women, strangling them in their beds, and arranging their bodies in a certain way after death. The police have no witnesses and the killer has left no clues. When a second victim is discovered, DI Erica Swift finds herself on the hunt for another serial killer... Lara Maher is living with a man who controls her every move. He treats her like a precious possession, and their shared past ties her to him. But now something has changed, and his increasingly volatile moods terrify her... As the rate of the murders increases, Erica needs to work fast to prevent him from killing again. One thing she does know is that he likes young, professional, blonde women. Women just like Erica.... Will she risk her own life to stop him when she's already lost so much, or is there another woman out there who can help?