A Cry of Shadows

Professor Ian Delaney has a theory no university will tolerate: that the human soul can be captured at the moment of death. Fired from his post in Australia after Agirl dies in his home laboratory, he reinvents himself as a Wal-Mart unloader in small-town Illinois, and quietly begins to kill.

Wayne Richardson kills for simpler reasons. His ex-girlfriend walked out. Nobody walks out on Wayne. Now every young brunette in Collinsville is in danger, and the body count is climbing.

When Delaney re...