Sequel: Sydney

Wallaby Way, Sydney

His meticulous and ill followers called him "The Painter" because of the way he seemed to paint his crime scenes in blood, and turn the dead into a work of art.

She called him papa.


He never lost one person he had kidnapped but they found her shivering and shaking, naked in the fields. As the police swarmed around her she held tight to the elk skull in her hands as though it would protect her.

The Painter always left something behind at his scenes, something that meant something to him but nothing to anyone else.

He left her behind for she was his masterpiece.