IM — Rick R. Reed

The Internet is the new meat market for gay men. Now a killer is turning the meat market into a meat wagon. One by one, he's killing them. Lurking in the digital underworld of Men4HookUpNow.com, he lures, seduces, and charms, reaching out through instant messages to the unwary. When the first body surfaces, openly gay Chicago Police Department detective Ed Comparetto is called in to investigate. At the scene, the young man who discovered the body tells him the story of how he found his friend. But did this witness play a bigger role in the murder than he's letting on? For Comparetto, this encounter is the beginning of a nightmarebecause this witness did more than just show up at the scene of the crime; he set the scene. Comparetto is on a journey to discover the truthbefore he loses his career, his boyfriend, his sanity his life. Because in this killer's world, IM doesn't stand for instant message it stands for instant murder.