Every Wickedness

Gregory Pike is a sessional English instructor at the Memorial
University of Newfoundland.

This is a terrific thriller. A serial killer, dubbed the spider-man by
the media, captures, tortures, and kills women, dumps their bodies in
public places, then taunts police about their inability to solve the
case. The reader learns the truth just before a character becomes the
killer’s latest target. We suffer through her nail-biting capture and
torture as the police scramble to figure things out.

Every Wickedness is extremely well crafted: the suspense starts early,
the murders are creepy without being overly macabre, the investigators
are competent, the leads and red herrings are fairly convincing, and the
excruciatingly delayed resolution is refreshingly unpredictable.
Vasas-Brown has two more novels in progress; if they’re as good as
this debut novel, she should attract a loyal following.