The Bride Collector

The Bride Collector is a 2010, thriller, and suspense novel written by Ted Dekker and published by Center Street.

A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women and leaves a bridal veil at each crime scene.

Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who have extraordinary gifts.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.

In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack.