The Night Monster: A Novel of Suspense (Jack Carpenter)

 
The past has come back to haunt P.I. Jack Carpenter, former head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit. As a young cop he failed to stop the kidnapping of a college coed by a shockingly large assailant€"and neither victim nor attacker was ever seen again. But eighteen years later, when his daughter, Jessie, asks him to bird-dog a creep who€s been shadowing her college basketball team, Carpenter€s pursuit of the voyeur leads him smack into another run-in with his old nemesis, who abducts one of Jessie€s teammates. With the assistance of the kidnap victim€s tycoon father and precious little time before the trail goes cold, Jack and his dog, Buster, hit the ground running€"following a twisted trail from the ruins of a shuttered mental asylum with an infamous past to the streets of a sinister small town with a ghastly secret.