The Church of Dead Girls — Stephen Dobyns

For decades, the faded, rural upstate New York village has lain dormant - until it is startlingly stirred to life when, one by one, three young girls vanish...

Nightmares are turned into horrifying reality when their corpses are found, brutally murdered, each missing their left hand...

Now, as the search for a madman gets underway, suspicion shrouds the quiet streets of Aurelius when its residents soon realize that a monster lives amongst them...

But not even prayers can save their loved ones from the rage of a twisted mind who has only just begun his slaughter...