Owen Oliver Riley, the terrifying boogeyman, snatched women off the streets, kept them captive for months and ultimately dumped their maimed bodies somewhere while taunting police and the press. To throw the police off track, she begins following certain patterns of a dreaded, unconvicted serial killer who prowled the neighborhood almost 20 years before. We soon realize that she’s enjoying this way too much and is keeping hubby in the dark about some very important details. He does deep research, often meeting the women face-to-face under an assumed identity. The husband (unnamed throughout his first-person narration) is the appointed hunter, seeking out strong but vulnerable women who match the couple’s criteria. The couple meet on “date nights” to discuss prospects for their next victim. The second killing happens a bit more easily. Their first murder is an accident, one orchestrated by Millicent’s past, but an accident nonetheless. We know this in the earliest pages of the novel, so this revelation is no spoiler. Millicent and her husband are serial killers. Their hobby is not like those of most other couples. They’re not rolling in dough, but they’re doing well enough in a nice subdivision while raising two teenagers, Rory and Jenna. She’s a real estate agent, he’s the tennis pro at the local country club. After 15 years of marriage, Millicent and her husband are finding that life in the Florida suburbs is a little, well, dull.
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