The Bridekiller — Barry Lyga

From the world of Barry Lyga’s New York Times bestselling ‘I Hunt Killers’ trilogy comes a thrilling adult mystery about the hunt for a monstrous serial killer.Brides are being killed on their wedding night. They were left soaked in blood and draped in lace. With nothing left behind to help them find the killer, the FBI is at a standstill. Their only, desperate hope is to bring in a consultant, Jasper Dent, the son of two serial killers and a former teen prodigy at hunting down such monsters. When he was a teenager, both of Jasper’s parents were members of a secret society of serial killers. Today, his father is in prison and his mother is in a coma, both results of their final confrontation with Jasper years ago. Now, wealthy from a best-selling memoir about his parents, Jasper still carries the scars from their parenting—and the uncanny and unwanted ability to understand killers that they instilled in him.Jasper wants nothing more than to hide from his past – cash his royalty checks and never think about murder and blood again. But he knows the only way to find any meaning or redemption in his life is to face his demons once again. Rusty and shaken, Jasper races against a ticking clock, frantically seeking to solve the impossible mystery before more women meet a horrific end.