Abomination

Abomination, by Colleen Coble, takes you into the mind of Gideon, a tormented serial killer, who uses Proverbs 6 and geocaching to leave clues about the murders.

Proverbs 6:16-19 lists seven things that are an abomination to God: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a wicked heart, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

Geocaching is a game of hiding and seeking treasure using GPS technology. Basically the three rules of the game are: if you take something from the cache you also leave something of equal or greater value, you write about the find in the cache logbook and then you log your experience on the geocaching web site.

In this story, the killer puts one of the verses from Proverbs and the location of a body (the cache) online. However, when one of his victims escapes, he becomes the hunted while continuing to stalk the escaped victim who also has amnesia. Unexpected twists and turns make this read a page turner and the identity of the killer is a suspense-filled surprise. It also brings to light how we all have to guard against the things that are an abomination to God.