“Such a contradiction. So courteous and yet so evil. Eve couldn’t wrap her mind around it. He kept a tight grip on her arm as they went around to the back of the cabin. Thunder rumbled overhead, and fingers of lightning illuminated the mostly overgrown path. In the next flash, Eve saw the white birds gliding along the pond’s surface.”

— Excerpt from ‘Abomination’ by Colleen Coble

“Michigan’s rugged and beautiful Upper Peninsula is the setting for this absorbing tale of love and loss, beauty and terror, grievous sins and second chances. A deftly woven thriller from the popular author of the Rock Harbor novels.”

— flyleaf

“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

— Proverbs 6: 16-19

By Elizabeth Butler

The Valdosta Daily Times

Just a warning: If you don’t enjoy seeing “CSI” and “Law and Order” and the grisly bodies, you won’t like “Abomination” by Colleen Coble. And if you saw Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and could never look at the feathered creatures the same after that, this book’s not for you: You will never think about the graceful swans on lakes and envision ballets again.

Five blond women about the same size and features are being killed, their faces surgically removed along with a certain part of their bodies cut off or out: eyes, tongue, hands, heart and feet. A swan feather lies at each site.

A madman who calls himself “Gideon” is the killer and seeks to rid the world of abominations. He gives clues to the death sites through geocaching. A normally innocent pastime, geocaching is using GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates to find a treasure. Once the site is found, the hunter can take the treasure if he leaves another one in its place.