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3M ago
EXCERPT: Seaview Drive is an unremarkable street in a quiet and forgotten backwater of Northwest Glasgow. Twelve story apartment pack families close like battery hens and loom over a squat row of terrace houses huddled on the other side of the street. Built in the 1960s to house families from condemned inner-city slums, the buildings ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
3M ago
EXCERPT: It had been a nice hallway at one point: wide with pictures on the walls, a cupboard for coats, and that interlocked parquet flooring that Mum always mooned over in the magazines. Now, bloody handprints smeared the walls with scarlet; bloody footprints tracked all over the wooden floor.
The scene examiners had laid their common approach path down one side of the hall to avoid the heaviest staining – the little metal trays clanging beneath Dr Fife’s bootied heels.
A camera’s flash flickered out from an open doorway.
Angus swallowed.
Even through the mask, the air tasted of hot copper ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
6M ago
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Happy hump day! It’s a stormy day here in New Zealand. Heavy rain but thankfully not particularly cold. I have been to Book Club at the library today and we had some very spirited discussions! I have come home with a bag of books to read – one library, the others borrowed from other group members. The librarian also talked to us about an app called Beanstack which a lot of libraries are using for inter-library reading challenges. I have been logging my reading on it for almost 3 weeks now and participating in the Master of Minutes challenge and the Bingo ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
7M ago
EXCERPT: ‘Mrs Velky,’ Agent Briggs says, ‘as I’m sure you’re aware, this is pretty much a slam dunk case. By denying legal counsel, and by your continued silence on the matter, you are basically admitting guilt. Do you understand that?’
‘Yes.’
‘So, you are admitting guilt?’ Zeal asks. ‘Did you kill Cora Granger? Would you like to make a confession right now?’
‘Yes.’
A moment of shocked silence fills the room.
I look up, my teary eyes as cold as ice.
‘I killed Cora Granger.’
ABOUT ‘A MARRIAGE OF LIES’: Beneath the surface of every marriage there are secrets. This one is deadly.
My husband ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
11M ago
EXCERPT: A Current Affair transcript (August 15, 1988)
MAURY POVICH: Edgewood, Maryland. A small, peaceful working-class town nestled on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Little League baseball parades and Fourth of July carnivals. The kind of place where people don’t bother to lock their doors at night. [in a deeper voice] Edgewood, Maryland . . . a close-knit community now held hostage in a death grip of terror and paranoia. Three young girls. Savagely beaten and murdered. The killer has been christened the “Boogeyman” because of his ability to strike close to home and vanish without a tra ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
1y ago
EXCERPT: There was a buzz in the air that she’d never witnessed before at a crime scene. The puzzlement on the face of her colleague told her he was thinking the same thing.
They got out of the car as a booming voice told everyone to move out of the way.
They headed towards the voice, which came from a police constable sprinting up the path to the car park. Behind him two paramedics were maneuvering a wheeled gurney along the graveled path. Keats followed closely behind, his face ashen.
She watched as the paramedics opened the ambulance door and expertly transferred the gurney into the back ..read more
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1y ago
EXCERPT: The Kitchen floor was covered with glass. She looked around, then saw that a pane had been smashed in the back door. The small one just above the door handle. The rest of the panes in the grid were intact. Then, in one of those panes, Ruth caught a reflection. A man, tall, dark clothing. Fierce blue eyes, a long narrow nose and square jaw.
He was right behind her.
An arm clamped around her throat and a hand stifled her scream. There was something in that hand. Something soft. It smelled bad. A chemical odour.
Ruth fell to the floor, her knees giving way.
Her vision swam, and then she ..read more
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2y ago
EXCERPT: Lucy stopped.
That feeling of being watched had returned, even stronger than before.
She spun around.
There – standing on the corner, twenty feet away, where the road played host to another row of crumbling warehouses. It was the man in the corduroy jacket. The one who’d been outside the cottage this morning. The one who’d got away.
Not this time.
ABOUT ‘NO LESS THE DEVIL’: It’s been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the i ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
2y ago
EXCERPT: She remembers the inside of the car. Two bodies, crumpled, broken. Two bloody necks: white bone, flesh, tendons visible. And two heads lying alongside. Casually discarded, wet hair trailing in blood, glassy eyes wide open.
‘Yes,’ she says. ‘Decapitated.’
ABOUT ‘THE ECHO MAN’: Detectives Cara Elliott and Noah Deakin are on the case of a series of seemingly unconnected murders, each different in method, but each shocking and brutal. As the body count increases, they can’t ignore the details that echo famous cases of the past—Manson, Kemper, Dahmer, and more. As Elliott and Deakin get c ..read more
Sandy's Book a Day Blog » Serial Killer Thriller
2y ago
EXCERPT: ‘I bet I feature in your dreams, don’t I?’ She laughed. ‘And don’t think I’ll just slip away out of your life, either. I have a task to complete and I will see it through.’
‘More people to kill?’ Alice spat the words out.
‘This time the focus is on you, Alice. You see, I want you dead, out of my head for good. Sorry to be a spoilsport but I’m calling time on our little game.’
The line went dead.
ABOUT ‘THE ASH LAKE MURDERS’: A female serial killer with a deadly agenda. The detective who must stop her. Luxury holiday lodges in the stunning Peak District. The game begins . . .
Callum i ..read more