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 It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address—an audiocassette  recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound  of a childlike voice chanting: “Bad love. Bad love. Don’t give me the  bad love.” For Alex Delaware the tape is the first intimation that he is  about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting  laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, and a  chilling act of trespass and vandalism. He has become the target of a  carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation  rapidly building to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief  to madness.
  
 “A wonderful, roller-coaster ride . . . a guaranteed page-turner.”—USA Today
  
 With the help of his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, Alex uncovers  a series of violent deaths that may follow a diabolical pattern. And if  he fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker’s mind games,  Alex will be the next to die.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.