Absolute fear

ISBN: 9780758220479 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0821779362 (pbk.
ISBN: 0758211821 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780821779361 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780758211828 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 404 p. ; 24cm. print
Publisher: New York : Kensington Books : Zebra, c2007.

Summary: A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear.Eve Renner knows Our Lady of Virtues Hospital well. As the daughter of one of its doctors, she spent her childhood exploring its secrets chambers, hidden rooms, and forbidden passageways. Now, somewhere in the decaying asylum lies the key to a betrayal from the past whose echoes are being felt with a vengeance--a crime beyond imagining that seems to lead to Eve herself.As each new body is found and forgotten, memories surface, and Eve must race to put together a deadly puzzle, one terrifying piece at a time. A killer is watching, planning, luring her back to the ruins of Our Lady and the shocking truths hidden there. For the sins of the past must be revealed, and the price paid--in blood. - "Goodreads"