A Mourning in Autumn — Harker Moore

In New York, autumn has brought a chill to the night air. Young women are dying. Drugged and abducted from dance clubs, the victims are treated as laboratory specimens before their mutilated bodies are wrapped mummylike in sheets of Visqueen and dumped like so much garbage.

Sakura's last case came too close to home when his wife, Hanae, nearly became that killer's final victim. Despite her brush with death, she has become obsessed with this new case. Blind from birth but guided by her inner vision, Hanae seeks to aid her husband in an investigation that seems to be going nowhere.

As the body count mounts, Sakura's mentor, FBI profiler Dr. Wilhelmina French, struggles to comprehend the bizarre fantasy that drives this serial murderer. Amid the growing mountain of reports and hours of legwork, Sakura fights to find the single clue that will break the case.

With the pressure to catch the killer building, Sakura knows that he is up against the rarest of cases-a serial killer who is growing bolder...and evolving. The investigation takes an unexpectedly cruel turn when Sakura's best friend, Detective Michael Darius, is drawn into the concluding act of this madman's lethal drama. And Sakura fears the worst is yet to come from a fiend who measures out death in microseconds of breath-and weighs life in single ounces of flesh.