Echoes — Jackie Hyman

Suppose you had an evil double, an inhuman twin who could act on all your most perverse, secret desires?

Something strange and unnatural is happening in a once-peaceful community in California. A serial killer is preying on young women, and all clues point to the town's seemingly ineffectual mayor. A former starlet is blackmailed with X-rated photos of a sexual spree she cannot remember. A scrupulously honest judge appears to be making backroom deals. A powerful senator is murdered in broad daylight. All through San Paradiso, the worst fantasies or fears of ordinary people are becoming alarmingly and horrifyingly real.

At the center of it all is Laura Bennett, a young reporter for the San Paradiso Herald. She begins to suspect that not only has a hellish conspiracy been unleashed, but events in the past may have made her the focus of demonic devil.