Novel about a red killer and a woman whose drawings come to life

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I'm looking for a book I read about a knife-wielding serial killer "dressed" in red who could disappear without a trace.

Media: Novel

When I read it: 2012-2016 (new release?)

Genre: Mystery/horror

Plot: The novel contains a series of random, seemingly unconnected murders that were all committed by a man in red with a knife. He would appear at the crime scenes out of nowhere, stab people, and then disappear without a trace.
The protagonist is a woman who can temporarily make her drawings come to life. Her drawings are so realistic that when she drew her dead husband, who died in a car crash(?), he didn't realize that he was dead at first. The husband appeared to retain his memories after every resurrection.

Setting: Some kind of city. One of the crimes was committed on top of a transparent glass walkway between two skyscrapers.

Characters: Artist woman, her dead husband, and a red serial killer.

Language: English

Cover: Something red. Might have been a flower of some kind(?)

Ruled out: Anything by Stephen King.

Yaroslav Kornachevskyi · Accepted Answer

Death Mask by Graham Masterton

He appeared as if from nowhere, brutally slashed a man and a young woman in an office elevator, then vanished again without a trace. The woman survived and gave the police a detailed description of the killer's bizarre face, yet the police can find no sign of him anywhere. It's as if he never existed. But now he's killed again. And again. One woman holds the key to his terrifying secret...but how do you stop a murderer who isn't there?

Novel about a red killer and a woman whose drawings come to life

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