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convicted serial killer reaching out to
someone outside the prison in which he
will (probably) spend the rest of his life.
Roscoe Lee Marcks actually claims more
AN INTRIGUING TALE THAT
ENDS WITH A TWIST!
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Malcolm is serving his sentence in a cruel
and unusual way. Banished to a remote
island in Alaska, he has no contact with
the outside world. His only outlet is
through his art.
Constantly
painting the
woman he lost
the day he
committed his
crime while
defending her
honor.
Then one day
his routine is
changed when a
C. E. Wilson
very small young
woman with
metal wings falls off his roof and into the
bushes. Is she a fairy, a robot, a
sophisticated doll, or some sort of high
tech spy drone? She claims to have been
once human, but her memories are faulty.
She could be his one chance at an early
pardon out of his sentence, but the more
time he spends with her, the more he
learns to care for her.
One of the things I really enjoy about
C.E. Wilson's stories are her
characterizations. She has the ability to
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the darkness of evil
“THE DARKNESS OF EVIL
Nobody nails this kinds of book
better and more consistently
than Alan Jacobson.”
write extremely compelling characters that
are not only believable, but move you. You
feel as they do, the highs and the lows.
Another thing I always appreciate is the
diversity and adversity
that her characters
struggle with. In every
story that I've ever read
by this talented author,
she has presented a story
in which the characters
are up against that which
is outside the norm, and
therefore left open to
ridicule by others. The hidden gem is often
how they stand up to society in spite of the
hurdles placed in front of them.
While this is the second book in the
'Somewhere in Between' series, it can be
read at any time. It is definitely a standalone
novel and so far has no relation to the first in
the series. Overall an intriguing and sweet
story with an interesting twist at the end.
REVIEWS
victims to his credit than even Hannibal
Lecter, but as a letter to his newly
published daughter indicates, he may not
be done yet. Enter the stalwart Vail
racing the clock in a fiendish game of wits
with a killer who’s every bit her equal.
Other thriller writers dabble in the
“profiler” sub-genre. But nobody nails
this kind of book better and more
consistently than Jacobson. He continues
to reach for more in each successive title,
The Darkness of Evil being his biggest and
most ambitious yet.
ALAN JACOBSON
CHANNELS HIS INNER
THOMAS HARRIS!
AVAILABLE February 21
Our old friend, FBI profiler Karen Vail,
returns in the pulse-pounding The Darkness of
Evil (Open Road,
$16.99, 486
pages) that finds
Alan Jacobson
channeling his
inner Thomas
Harris.
That was my first
thought,
especially in
comparison to
Red Dragon, when
the book made a
Alan Jacobson
plot point out of a
~Jon Land, TopShelf Reviews
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