The Listener - The Rush/Chinbroski Series, #1

A Rush/Chinbroski Novel, Volume 1During a rare Texas freeze, Detectives Greg Rush and Rick Chinbroski investigate the discovery of a woman found dead in her bathtub. She is encased in ice with a cellular phone positioned against her ear.  A note left at the scene of the crime leads the detectives to determine that they are not the only ones on the killer's trail.  A woman, it seems, is desperate to help the police catch him...but only when she decides it's time.
More notes, written in an obscure American dialect, follow, leading the detectives to California, where the woman reveals her identity...and that of the monster they are hunting.