Rachel Caine, Killman Creek

The second book in Rachel Caine's Stillhouse Lake series picks up where the first left off.

Gwen Proctor is the ex-wife of a serial killer who mutilated women in the family's garage without her knowledge. Now that he's escaped from prison, Gwen goes on the offensive, desperately trying to protect her children from their father and the crazed minions who support him and copycat his crimes.

The book is sometimes reminiscent of the TV series The Following, in which Kevin Bacon plays an FBI agent who's after a serial killer. That killer is likewise charismatic enough to attract sick acolytes, and the show also features the killer's ex-wife, although the focus is primarily on Kevin Bacon's character.

At any rate, Killman Creek is absorbing and exciting, definitely a good read. I thought I'd seen somewhere that there would be three books in this series, but I suspect that's wrong: the story seems to be well tied up by the end of book two.