Poet of Blood
Poet of Blood: A Noir story of Detective Jonathan Walker in the gritty, other worldly city of New Orleans. A serial murder styling themselves as an artist of sorts is killing beautiful female performers around the city and writing poems in their blood. The poems claim that the killer is doing a service to these women and the world by taking them at the height of their glory and beauty so the world will always celebrate them that way. The grisly and bizarre murders starts to trouble various members of the police force and psychologists are brought in to give counseling. Dr. Ellen Sinclair and her assistant, the young Dr. Gwen Parsons. They begin giving counseling to the department. Walker having a lifelong distrust of 'shrinks' avoids them both. He has a tense conversation with Dr. Sinclair where it clear each is trying to read into the other's thoughts. There is a sense of mental power struggle between these two each time they meet. Detective Walker's interactions with...