When she was a young girl, Detective Dawn Cimarron lost her entire family during one afternoon of brutal violence. As a result, Dawn vowed to dedicate the rest of her life to tracking down killers and bringing them to justice. Now she and her partner, Sergeant Rafe Melbourne, are hard at work trying to close not one, but two major cases in their hometown of Mountpelier, Colorado.

The first case involves a young man named Cullen Torrense, who has been found stabbed to death, his body left under a tree. At first it looks like a simple drug deal gone wrong. However, after encounters with Gwen, the victim’s angry, bitter stepsister, and Monieque, his self-absorbed, histrionic mother, the two detectives begin to suspect that there is more to this case than meets the eye.

The second case is even more disturbing: a college student has been found badly injured and unconscious at the foot of a cliff, and his girlfriend has disappeared, the apparent victim of a kidnapping plot. And all indications point to one inevitable conclusion: a serial killer is on the loose – a clever and resourceful killer who seems to be equally obsessed with visions of an ancient goddess and young girls with long, pale blonde hair.

With the help of Dawn’s husband Ty, a retired Air Force major now in charge of the local unit of the Civil Air Patrol, Dawn and Rafe race against the clock to bring Cullen’s killer to justice and to find the missing girl – before it is too late.

“A serial killer with a twisted fantasy about a Norse ice goddess leads law enforcement on an unforgettable manhunt that quickly becomes personal for intrepid detective Dawn Cimarron {…} “Recommended” {…}  “Exhilarating”  {…} “Prelatte’s artful prose depicts a ruggedness of landscape and character that distinguishes When the Tiger Kills from other police procedurals.” – BestThrillers.com