The chilling sequel to the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller THE DEAD ROOM Genevieve OBrien knows all about nightmares She survived for two months as the prisoner of a deranged killer Now a new menace is stalking the streets of New YorkThe media is buzzing about the Poe Killings a string of homicides mirroring the authors macabre stories Almost without exception the victims have been members of a literary society devoted to the master of crime fiction--and Genevieve s own mother may be nextSpooked by the bizarre slayings Genevieve turns to PI Joe Connolly her rescuer her friend and She wants him to be much more but hes been avoiding her since her ordeal and she cant seem to get close to him Joe isnt sure there even is a case But as the body count rises and their investigation leads them miles from Manhattan he has to admit that theres a twisted new serial killer at work Even more unsettling is the guidance Joe is receiving from beyond the grave People he knows to be dead--his cousin Matt and Matts fiancxEe Leslie--are appearing to him offering new clues and leads and warning him of terrible danger aheadBut not even otherworldly intervention can keep Genevieve and Joes new nightmare from becoming terrifyingly real--and putting them squarely in the crosshairs between this world and the next.