More than thirty years ago, artist and serial killer Marsden Hexcamp was shot to death in an Alabama courtroom by a deranged fan. But during his trail, grisly evidence from his crimes vanished from the police station. Among underground collectors of the macabre, his art lives on...

Today, a prostitute's body found in a candlelit motel room is the first in a series of ghastly tableaux paying tribute to Hexcamp's unspeakable talents. This discovery will lead detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilius into the shocking world of the Death Collectors, where madness is an art and murder is the most beautiful act imaginable.