Light of the world. James Lee Burke. 2013.

When Detective Dave Robicheaux’s daughter, Alafair, declares her intention to interview a convicted serial killer called Asa Surette in his Kansas prison cell, Robicheaux does all he can to dissuade her. Dave has always encouraged her ambitions as a writer, but as a father he doesn’t want her to be exposed to a man so nakedly evil. And his fears seem well founded when Alafair is visibly shocked by the encounter.

Two years later, the horror Surette evoked is all but forgotten as Dave, his wife Molly and Alafair are vacationing amidst the natural beauty of Montana. But evil, it seems, has followed them into this wild paradise. Someone is stalking Alafair, and Dave begins to suspect that it’s Surette - even though he officially died when the prison truck he was being transported in collided with an oil tanker.

Is Alafair now the target of one of the most depraved serial killers who ever lived, or has she unwittingly crossed paths with a murderous psychopath closer to home? Dave enlists the help of his former Homicide partner, Clete Purcel, to find out, and the pair soon find themselves drawn into a web of evil and corruption that threatens to engulf them once and for all.