I’m getting harder to impress. So when I find a writer that seriously makes me doubt my ability as a storyteller enough to toss my manuscript in the dumpster, you know the prose is tight, the suspense high, and the tingles, electrifying.Such was the case this fall when I read One Scream Away, the...
Intense, gripping and complex. It took me quite a while to figure out what the villain was doing with the dolls and some of his other tricks confused me too - which is a compliment to the author - she really kept me guessing. The twists and turns right up to the end really did surprise me.I also ...
GIBSON SCREECHED, BUT Varón took Kara’s cue seamlessly. He leaned down and gathered a handful of Gibson’s shirt at the back. Started to hoist the man up. “Whatever the lady wants,” he said. Gibson wailed. “Okay, okay,” he said. “His name was Alexander.” Kara’s heart came to a halt. Alexander. Adr...
One, two, three… He was waiting for the blood. Four, five…A tiny red bead squeezed out, another right behind it, and a string of liquid rubies welled up along the severed edges of flesh. At ten, he wiped away the strand, applied pressure with a cloth napkin from the motel, then sank back on his h...
The fire had cost him more time in the hunt for Rebecca: working the scene, talking to Mrs. Piltzecker and other neighbors, processing. He thought about the delay. If this were a cop movie, that’s what the fire would be—the murderer trying to distract them, tie them up while something else was ha...