Summer, 2001 and southern louisiana is held in the terrifying grip of a serial killer whose initial ‘hot zone’ is the louisiana state university area of baton rouge. The number of victims is growing and all are attractive, successful young women -- women whose mainstream, “low risk” lifestyle should never put them on the radar of a killer. But this is the hardest kind of serial killer to catch -- impulsive, always changing his m.O.