Crime Mysteries #11

When a serial killer begins strangling blonde women in a city apartment building, Detective Lawson finds himself racing against time to catch the madman—especially when the pattern of murders begins to close in on his own wife. With clues pointing toward a locksmith and a killer whose sanity has completely unraveled, Lawson pursues the strangler through a desperate chase that will determine whether justice prevails or whether another victim falls to the murderer's hands.

John Templeton is a struggling actor whose marriage crumbles when his wife relentlessly mocks his talent—until the day her taunts stop forever. Years later, as his career finally flourishes, he's cast in a TV drama that mirrors his darkest secret, and when an understudy's resemblance to his late wife sends him spiraling, the line between performance and reality shatters in ways he never anticipated.

Private eye Matt Clark rushes to a ballet premiere when his old school pal Paul Branton calls in trouble—Paul's ex-wife Dale has made violent threats against his fiancée Loretta Blane, who's dancing in the show alongside her. When the theatre's wardrobe mistress turns up murdered backstage, the mystery deepens, and during the "Devil's Ballet" number, a far deadlier sabotage unfolds. Clark must untangle a web of jealousy, revenge, and hidden motives before the real killer escapes.