next in series: The murder game; followed by: Cold Hearted; Silent Killer; Dead by Midnight.

All over the city, beautiful women are being murdered, mutilated to death by a stranger known only as The Beauty Queen Killer. Former pageant queens fear for their lives as more women are found dead, a single rose next to their ravaged corpses. It's up to private detective Lindsay McCallister to hunt down the sadistic killer -- and uncover the truth behind these murders before more women are found dead. But what she finds is that these innocent women are mere playthings for an evil game between two wicked men--a game that will only end in more bloodshed.