SOLVED. Adult Thriller, Police novel about a detective investigating on a serial killer who kills and rape young teenager girls mostly in the night. [s]

[Michèle]

Thriller, police novel about a dectective investigating on a serial killer who kills and rape young teenager girls mostly in the night.

I'm really having trouble finding this book. I've looked for it already almost everywhere on the internet, so I just hope someone can help me.

So the book is written from several points of view at the beginning of the story, there is a scene with this guy who is described as a really ordinary person of no importance, he is at a party for his fiancée or girlfriend who is called Joanna (I don't know if the spelling is correct) and she's a lawyer. in fact it wasn't really a party, it was more of a gala evening since I remember that there were classical musicians in the room and more specifically a pianist.

After this scene, I remember another scene where the serial killer kills a girl after raping her in a dark alley. I remember him killing at specific times maybe always at night and on other specific conditions but I don't really remember those conditions clearly.

Then there is a scene with the detective investigating the case, thinking about the serial killer, I think he's in a bar with someone else, or he met this someone else directly there I'm not sure.

After that we change point from the first guy who happens to be an artist, a sculptor, he had 5 sculptures in a room in his house and he was working on another sculpture.

I also remember this other point of view with a young girl living with her grandmother I think who was the target of the killer. The girl was really carefree and decided to go out late to meet her friends or go to a party. I remember her wearing thigh high boots and really revealing clothes. But the same night, the serial killer tried to attack her before she left her house. There was a garden in their house, a garden in which there were washing lines for drying clothes. among this laundry there were underwear of the girl and I think the killer stole the underwear and I think he did it with his other victims as well. But the police had predicted by means that I don't remember that he would be there. Then begins a chase between the detective and other police officers and the killer who we had not really seen, just his build.

I think the detective knew the artist and went to his house, and when he discovered the 5 human sculptures he was keeping. considering that there were 5 murders, he directly sees the guys as a suspect which is verified at the very end of the story.

I read this story in 2016 but I think the story is much older since my dad only had old books.

I really hope someone will help me because this book keeps haunting me.

[Brenna]

Maybe Hell Is Always Today by Jack Higgins?

[Michèle]

Thank you so much !!! It's exactly that.

[Michèle]

Solved
Hell Is Always Today