Excerpt: Untitled Serial Killer Story
Here is another scene from the novel. As I mentioned perviously, these excerpts are unedited and that details may change in the future. This is one which will be most likely to change. But for now, it does introduce Nick Ryan, the forensic psychologist and one half of the broken relationship I wrote about earlier.
If you missed the first post, you can find it here. It contains the first excerpt as well as information about the story itself.
Hope you all enjoy this one. Nick is a character close to my heart, the idiot.
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Nick Ryan sat back in his
leather chair, the worn material moaning softly as he moved. He stared at the
computer screen, an article from the Greendale
Gazette staring back at him, the files, documents, and photos covering the
desk forgotten. armed robbery thwarted by
new resident. The story had made front-page news, but then, an armed
robbery in a small town like Greendale was seriously big news.
He’d read the
article twice. The first time, he’d felt a familiar, painful wrenching in his
gut as he’d read Emery’s name. It was the same feeling he had every time he got
one of her fan newsletters that he’d signed up for, or saw someone reading her
books. The same feeling he got every time he glanced at her photo in the back
of one of her books, or read her blog, or visited her website, or flipped
through his own photos on his phone or computer.