Wow is all I can say. Brenda keeps the reader wanting to turn the page till the last page has been read. This is the 4th installment of Evelyn Talbot( if you count the novella) The hunt is still on to find the Jasper the serial killer who terrorized Evelyn since she was a teenager and twenty plus years later has not be found. Leland and his sister Sierra along with their two friends have come to Alaska for hunting. Sierra is more interesting in the views than the hunt and so she stays in the cabin while her brother and his friends go hunting. While she is waiting she finds out a storm is coming and begins to worry about her brother and his friends. She goes in search for wood in an area adjacent to their cabin to keep the fireplace and the cabin warm when she stumbles upon a body: so begins this novel where now the people of hilltop have to worry about murders again after eight months from the last murders. This novel kept me in awe and shocked as page after page like lightning round so many variables and things happening . There is not a dull or lagged moment in the novel we see Evelyn interviewing her latest serial killer her first woman at the facility and at the same time trying to keep abreast about updates about Jasper. Her love Amarok wondering if this new killer is truly Jasper coming to kill Evelyn finally. Both Amarok and Evelyn race again time as pertinent clues arises to let them know for sure that Jasper is in the area and when and if they will be able to stop him. A truly stellar storyline a series that keeps getting better. Review on goodreads and amazon.

This is not my favorite series by Brenda Novak but I did enjoy it. It had lots of action and lots of twist and turn.

Evelyn Talbot studies serial killers for a living. After barely surviving her own encounter with a monster at age sixteen, she has made it her life’s work to try to figure out how to stop them. She’s been living in Alaska at Hanover House working at a psychiatrist there for a few years now. She believes her work is academic, but it becomes anything but when a woman in the area disappears, and all signs point to the same man who attacked Evelyn all those years ago. Evelyn’s boyfriend, also the only local cop finds not just one body, but two. Could it be Jasper Moore, Evelyn’s attacker? The man was never caught and it appears he may have returned to finish the job he started years before. I have read Brenda Novak’s books for years and her attention to detail and character development is second to none. And she writes a hell of a scary story