Crimson Park — C.J. Booth

Rife with stolen identities, two-faced witnesses, and headless torsos, nothing is as it seems in the second novel in C. J. Booth's 'Park' series.

Following their spectacular success in solving California's worst serial killer case, a case that had languished unsolved for 15 years, Sacramento's newly formed cold-case division detectives -- Stan Wyld and Jake Steiner with I.T. expert Mallory Dimante -- find themselves the toast of the town. Anxious to move on from the rampant publicity, they take on a simple missing person case.

But their search for missing Hollywood film director James Marston pitches them headlong back into the malevolent world of serial killer Ruby Everheart -- and into the lives of the killer's last intended victims, 14 year old Michael and six year old Jessie Cooper -- two kids who unknowingly possess a secret that will ensnare everyone in a deadly game of cat and mouse with an evil far worse than Ruby Everheart.