Read one of the best murder mystery novels to come along in quite some time. Written with the reader in mind who does not want to have the clues placed in front of them like a trail of breadcrumbs, The Cameo is a thrill ride like no other.

Every book has a line, a page, or even a chapter that is so powerful the reader stays with it and re-reads that part over and over again. If there were a Book of Evil, the chapter on Lowell Huffman would be that part; dog-eared and worn edges, the chapter on the man whose darkness knows no depth and no margins would catch you reading it again and again.

Huffman is evil and nothing else.

As a homicide detective in Tampa, Florida, Riley Scott has seen his fair share of murders, but never has he looked so deeply into the eyes of a man who enjoyed it; a man who breathed it in like oxygen and drank it up like water. Scott has looked into those eyes and knows he is in a race to save the latest captive of the killer—a killer who escaped police custody and now taunts Scott and terrorizes Tampa. Just when Scott thinks he is getting close to Huffman, he realizes he is still one step behind.

But when a 9-1-1 call leads police to a dead body with a screwdriver protruding from its neck, and the body is identified as the man Scott has been chasing, and the call was made by one of the killer’s surviving victims, it’s case closed, right?

A few days after the man’s body is discovered, Scott’s instincts wake him from his sleep and lead him to the actual killer where Scott finds his own life in danger, as well as that of one of Huffman’s captives.