The murder victim had been in a troubled marriage and so the investigation logically started with her husband.  When the two women call on him, he is found murdered and beheaded as well.

Agent Hewitt begins the tedious procedure of interviewing associates of the couple beginning with their marriage counselors, a group that she finds to be wildly unorthodox.  Her investigation leads her to a priest and to a psychiatrist and in Liz’s mind any of them could become suspects.  Meanwhile other clients of the marriage counseling clinic begin to turn up missing and are eventually found decapitated. It gets curiouser and curiouser.

Jen, the boss’s daughter, goes her own way and thinks that she sees a connection with some cold cases and winds up interviewing the son of a long ago murdered newspaper editor. He is every bit as weird as the other characters in the investigation.

The story is compelling with enough twists and turns to keep the reader guessing and never quite sure what to expect next.

Author, Sheldon Rusch is a skilled wordsmith and his prose rivals some of the old masters. Sometimes, however, it seems as if the flowery descriptions just don’t fit a story filled with gruesome scenes and headless bodies.

All in all, I found it an exciting book that will please all of the whodunit fans out there.