FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR. A psychological thriller with a special enchanting aesthetic. The serial killer is not so much disgusting as he is unnaturally exquisite and beautiful. Some call him husband or father. Some call him a friend or colleague. But the only name that matters to him is the Poet... “KILLER WITH A SECRET PLAN.” There is a serial killer at work in Austin, Texas—one of a kind. All his victims are people who have offended poetry in one way or another. He kills them with cyanide, and puts a piece of paper with poetic lines in their mouths. No more traces. And one more thing: the Poet seems to be taking a special interest in one woman. And she... "A DETECTIVE WITH A DARK SECRET." Samantha Jazz is the Austin Police Department's top profiler and a natural detective. She senses evil in people - and is never wrong. Except for one time - when she didn’t feel it in her father, and it almost broke her career... “POETRY WITH DEADLY RHYMS.” This case threatens to become her first failure. It is woven from comparisons and metaphors that do not answer any of her questions; only, like completed stanzas, the dead bodies multiply. But Samantha feels that she is gradually getting closer to the Poet. And also that he is also inexorably approaching her...