What is pure evil?

Small creatures have been turning up throughout Charlotte, mutilated in a bizarre manner. Then Tempe is diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.

Tempe discovers that the victim is a dog. As one who finds animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell. Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe seeks input from a forensic psychologist. The doctor offers a warning that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests more macabre discoveries.

And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings.

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