Best known as the place to see Santa and his sleigh, the tiny town of North Pole, Alaska is a quiet, safe haven. But when the bodies of young women begin turning up one by one, investigators piece together the evidence and realize the cases are eerily similar. By then, the suspect is 4-thousand miles away. As investigators scramble to catch up with the suspected serial murderer before he claims another victim, he concocts a plan to outwit police once and for all.

• Jason Alan Cook