For fans of Robert Parker’s smart but tough-as-nails heroes, "Killer" introduces a new sympathetic character, Jack Rhodes, to the mainstream thriller genre. Author Jack Rhodes has a hole in his life. Five years ago, after the shocking suicide of his fiancé, Jack went on a fifteen-month alcoholic spiral into near-oblivion, and has no memory of what happened during that time. Jack finds his way back to sobriety and, eventually, literary success... moreFor fans of Robert Parker’s smart but tough-as-nails heroes, "Killer" introduces a new sympathetic character, Jack Rhodes, to the mainstream thriller genre. Author Jack Rhodes has a hole in his life. Five years ago, after the shocking suicide of his fiancé, Jack went on a fifteen-month alcoholic spiral into near-oblivion, and has no memory of what happened during that time. Jack finds his way back to sobriety and, eventually, literary success. But just as Jack is finishing the fourth book in his series about a fictional serial killer, LAPD Detective Patrick Marsh interrupts Jack’s quiet routine with news of what appears to be a copycat murder from his first book. Jack cooperates, but soon finds out he is Suspect Number One because of one simple, baffling fact—the murder took place before Jack wrote the book.Jack hires hotshot attorney Nicki Feldman to intercede, but also begins to investigate on his own. In researching his novels, Jack learned criminal investigation procedure from the ground up, hanging out with cops and gleaning the tricks of the trade from the professionals in the LAPD, NYPD, and FBI. But to his horror he discovers that each of the murders he has imagined and written about are all real—down to the most harrowing details—and all of them occurred before his books were published.Police and FBI are investigating as well, and Jack winds up on the run, a fugitive haunted by his dark past and hunted by the very people he learned investigative techniques from. But there is one book that Jack hasn’t finished yet, which the police know nothing about. Jack must use every resource he has to prevent the murder of the young woman in his unfinished book and find the real-life killer, while on the run and piecing together the fragments of his life he can only recall with the help with Nicki and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Ben Abrams. Because the solution to the mystery lies buried deep in Jack’s own past. less
