The Lake Tahoe Ten Killings

With only months to live because of terminal lung cancer, Marcus Gostin is ready to confess his secret to the entire world. He is the person responsible for the frightening and unsolved disappearances of local women - known informally as the "Lake Tahoe Ten" - during the past two decades.

As the owner of a successful and popular Lake Tahoe resort, he was able to hide in plain sight while living his life as a patient and proficient serial killer. Proud of what he had done and wanting his name to live on in immortality, he decides to document in meticulous and graphic detail how he hunted, kidnapped, and brutally slaughtered each of the Tahoe Ten" in a journal with the hope that it would be published after his death.

But it wasn't over.

Nearing the conclusion of his literary masterpiece, he crosses paths with a young man and instantly senses an intangible, but very real connection with him. He knows the kid is a killer in the making, and he sees the opportunity to take him under his wing. Motivated by events in his own life as well as material he has viewed on the dark web, the young man is interested in learning more.

Class is in session, and Marcus thoroughly teaches him the art of kidnapping a woman and getting away with it, along with the psychology of actually taking a human life. A hands-on tutorial at the expense of a woman who broke the student's heart will be the final lesson, and Marcus' last kill before his apprentice is ready to continue the journal and carry on his legacy.

Will the student pass his final exam?

The Tahoe Ten Killings by former NYPD "Cannibal Cop" Gil Valle (A Gathering of Evil, The Social Catalogue of #Prey) strikes with unnerving realism so psychologically tormenting, it may be seen by some as a "how to" manual. It is not for the faint of heart.