THE OLD SAYING GOES, "WRITING IS EASY. JUST OPEN A VEIN."BUT SOMEONE WANTS TO OPEN IT FOR YOU.Scott Dimbleby is trying to turn his life around. A talented but argumentative journalist in New York, he needs to redeem himself after getting fired again. And maybe the way to do it is with a cover feature on Benny Amar, the hip radio talk show host. But there are dark rumors about Amar's personal life. And then there's Hala, Scott's occasional lover who knows more about Amar than she's willing to say for the moment.

Now Scott is sure that Benny is somehow connected to a series of vicious murders, with the bodies of college-age girls dumped in mail bags on New York City street corners. But even when the talk show host's life explodes in a sensational and controversial case of sexual harassment and a trial for rape, no one will buy Scott's insistence that Amar is involved in the killing spree. Like today's murder cases punctuated by social media and inflammatory rhetoric, Scott must tune out the noise. As his investigation races to a pulse-pounding showdown, he uncovers the diabolical methodology used to select the victims. BLOOD ON THE SIRENS is a thriller that shrewdly dissects our assumptions about gender, media coverage and "sensational" serial killers.