Shudder

With his own little boy the prime target, LAPD homicide detective Robert Card races against time to stop the serial killer who has been preying on the city's tots. Original.

LAPD homicide detective Robert Card is the recently widowed father of a young son. Card's always difficult job thus becomes even more so when he is called in to investigate the death of a little boy who has been found suffocated and bound. Soon after, Card meets Angela Westmore, a sensitive, sexy day-care counselor who is great with kids. Unfortunately, Angela bears deep emotional scars from being sexually abused as a child. Detective Ellen Lindstrom is suspicious of her partner's new squeeze, and her private investigation proves her right: Angela suffers from a multiple-personality disorder. Her other personality is the death-obsessed poet Dominique, who kills children as inspiration for her verse. Dominique becomes fixated on Card after seeing him on the television news; she uses Angela to snare him, in order to get to the real prize: Card's son, Mike. The two detectives must race to save Mike's life before Dominique again heeds the call of her deadly muse. Despite a gory ending that veers somewhat unsteadily into horror-novel territory, Harper ( Shiver ) deftly weaves inventive characters and believable situations into an absorbing thriller.
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