Wayne's Dead by Christy Tillery French
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- Pub. Date: July 2002
- 184pp
- Sales Rank: 261,652
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: July 2002
- Publisher: Publish America
- Format: Paperback, 184pp
- Sales Rank: 261,652
- ISBN-13: 9781591291978
- ISBN: 1591291976
Synopsis
Jackson Daniels, investigative detective with the Knoxville Police Department, is called to the scene of a murder at a ritzy hotel in Knoxville. A dead man lies on the bed, above his mutilated body the words, Wayne's Dead, have been written. Jackson and his team of detectives ascertain fairly quickly that they are faced with a brutal serial killer who has been on the loose in the Southeast for the past twelve years. Choosing married, middle-aged attorneys as prey, the killer seduces them, murders them, and then mutilates the body afterwards, leaving the same message on the wall above the victims. Frustrated over the lack of evidence found at each scene, Jackson and his team frantically search for their perpetrator, never suspecting that the person they are trying to find has been with them from the start.
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May 19, 2005: This book hooked me in the Prologue??The small child hovers in a corner of the room in the dark, her knees drawn up to her chest, her face covered by her hands, trembling, tears running down her face?.? Then there?s Chapter 1! The tale this book tells is tragic and, even though the reader knows its fiction, what happens in this book happens in real life. The story revolves around a series of gory murders of men who?ve been killed by a woman with whom each has been having a one-night fling?his last night! Detective Jack (Jackson) Daniels and partner, Marvin, are called upon to investigate the case. As the investigation proceeds, Jack meets and falls for the beautiful Gillian. Divorced, but still seeing his ex-wife on occasion, Jack begins to think he could get seriously involved with the enigmatic woman who is not always at his beck and call. While Jack is making love to Gillian and trying to find the killer, other men are dying and the same gruesome message is left behind by the killer, a bloody handprint on the wall behind the bed with the words ?Wayne?s Dead? inscribed in blood. What?s the meaning of the words? And what is that grotesque, bloody body part on the floor? The final outcome, though somewhat predictable, is well handled by Ms. French. You know what they say about reading a book. If the end leaves you saying, ?Wow! That was good!? then the author has done her job. Carolyn Rowe Hill
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October 15, 2004: I gave up trying to find a discounted copy of this '5-star' suspense novel and paid $19.95 for it. I wish I'd kept my money! I read this book expecting with each chapter that something interestingly twisty and shocking was going to occur, but boy was I wrong! The author essentially tells you exactly what's going on from the get go. This isn't a mystery at all, and it's a terrible print job with an annoying number of varied spellings of character's names - occurring on the same page!
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