Nightmare Logic Author:Matthew Hall TWENTY YEARS AGO ... Little redheaded Carolyn, eight years old, collects poisonous scorpions in the desert outside of Tucson, Arizona. She has hunted snakes and other animals, but scorpions are her favorites -- they're full of potential. She loves scorpions almost as much as she hates her new stepmother. One day, a particularly unpleasant ac... more »cident conveniently and permanently removes Carolyn's stepmother from her life.
THE PRESENT... Who is the psychopath who has murdered sixteen young women in the desert outside of town? What sort of twisted mind could kill in such a grisly fashion -- and why? A charismatic young reporter named Ben Quadrun is working the obit beat for the Tucson Sun and observing firsthand the hideous results of the killer's work, when he falls under the sexual spell of a woman with beautiful red hair -- a woman named Carolyn who knows just what to do when she discovers that Ben is in love with someone else.« less