The Steel Van Man (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780985760236)

In the quiet town of Swampscott, Massachusetts, Detective Stanley Devonshire is called to a crime scene unlike any he has faced before. A beloved local family has been torn apart: a mother brutally murdered, a father reduced to something both horrifying and impossible, and a young daughter missing without a trace. As Stan and his longtime friend, Detective Mark Brown of Marblehead, begin unraveling the case, they uncover chilling similarities to unsolved murders stretching back decades.

Each scene is disturbingly staged, every victim carefully chosen, every crime echoing a twisted sense of order. Behind the violence lies a predator guided by a rigid code of ethics, one who has refined their craft across generations. To investigators, the pattern suggests intelligence and calculation beyond anything they have encountered. To the town, it means the threat is far from over.

As Swampscott reels under fear and suspicion, Stan races to stop a force that has eluded capture for nearly a century. What begins as a local investigation spirals into a confrontation with evil shaped by time itself - and it may already be too late to prevent the next victim from falling into its hands.