Killer
Killer Series, Book 1
by Stephen Carpenter
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Pub Date Sep 22 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
"AN E-BOOK BLOCKBUSTER!!!" - Entertainment Weekly
The book that started Stephen Carpenter's acclaimed mystery series, KILLER is the story of Jack Rhodes, a bestselling crime novelist who has a hole in his life. Jack is an author and former boxer who was on his way to literary success when his life was blown apart by the horrific suicide of his fiancee.
Devastated, Jack went on a fifteen-month alcoholic spiral into near-oblivion before eventually working past his demons to become a best-selling crime novelist. But just as Jack is finishing his fourth book about a vicious serial killer, the LAPD interrupts his quiet routine with news of what appears to be a copycat murder from his first book. There's just one problem--the murder took place before Jack's book was published.
Jack begins to investigate, using techniques he learned through his meticulous research with police and FBI investigators. To his horror, Jack discovers that each of the murders he has imagined are all real...down to the most harrowing details. And Jack is Suspect Number One.
Jack winds up on the run, a fugitive haunted by his past and hunted by the very cops and FBI agents he has learned from and befriended. Jack must use every resource he has to prevent the murder of a woman he knows will be next in his series of novels. He must piece together shattered memories from the fragments he recalls during his drunken fifteen-month blackout.
Fast-paced and utterly unpredictable, KILLER reads like a rapid-fire crime thriller, with hairpin twists and turns and edge-of-your seat psychological horror. KILLER eludes easy answers to the impossible puzzle Jack must solve, and takes the reader on a journey unlike any other.
Fans of Robert Parker, Stephen King, and Elmore Leonard say " the best bang for my reading buck this year," "nothing is what it seems," and "I had to remind myself I wasn't reading Stephen King. " Listen to fellow readers on Goodreads: "Don't pass this one up!"
The book that started Stephen Carpenter's acclaimed mystery series, KILLER is the story of Jack Rhodes, a bestselling crime novelist who has a hole in his life. Jack is an author and former boxer who was on his way to literary success when his life was blown apart by the horrific suicide of his fiancee.
Devastated, Jack went on a fifteen-month alcoholic spiral into near-oblivion before eventually working past his demons to become a best-selling crime novelist. But just as Jack is finishing his fourth book about a vicious serial killer, the LAPD interrupts his quiet routine with news of what appears to be a copycat murder from his first book. There's just one problem--the murder took place before Jack's book was published.
Jack begins to investigate, using techniques he learned through his meticulous research with police and FBI investigators. To his horror, Jack discovers that each of the murders he has imagined are all real...down to the most harrowing details. And Jack is Suspect Number One.
Jack winds up on the run, a fugitive haunted by his past and hunted by the very cops and FBI agents he has learned from and befriended. Jack must use every resource he has to prevent the murder of a woman he knows will be next in his series of novels. He must piece together shattered memories from the fragments he recalls during his drunken fifteen-month blackout.
Fast-paced and utterly unpredictable, KILLER reads like a rapid-fire crime thriller, with hairpin twists and turns and edge-of-your seat psychological horror. KILLER eludes easy answers to the impossible puzzle Jack must solve, and takes the reader on a journey unlike any other.
Fans of Robert Parker, Stephen King, and Elmore Leonard say " the best bang for my reading buck this year," "nothing is what it seems," and "I had to remind myself I wasn't reading Stephen King. " Listen to fellow readers on Goodreads: "Don't pass this one up!"
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