About the book: 1997 / In the sweltering summer, Washington shudders with horror. A serial killer named The Priest roams the city streets, strangling slender, blond women and leaving written absolutions for the sins of those killed near the corpses. Investigator Ben Paris enlists the brilliant psychiatrist Tess Kurt in the search for the insane maniac. Ben falls passionately in love with Tess, but suddenly realizes that his beloved is in danger - after all, she is slender and blond, and at any moment the maniac can turn his murderous attention to her.