The Memory Killer

Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream. Young gay men are disappearing from bars, showing up days later sexually assaulted and semi-comatose, all recollections obliterated by hallucinations. Pathologist Vivian Morningstar determines the men have been dosed with toxins found in plants common throughout the US: black locust to make them weak, dieffenbachia to paralyze vocal chords, and jimson (locoweed) to create fierce visions. DNA leads Detective Carson Ryder to comic-bookstore owner Gary Ocampo, but upon arresting Ocampo, he finds the man hugely obese and bedridden. The only seeming explanation is that Ocampo's identical-twin brother, Donnie, is committing the abductions. The only problem is that Donnie died shortly after birth...