Freak

✍ Scribed by Hillier, Jennifer

• Book ID: 107852131
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781451664546

✦ Synopsis

Suspense magazine chose Jennifer Hilliers truly frightening debut, Creep, as one of 2011s best novels, while #1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver cautioned you better call in sickyoure not going anywhere until you finish reading. Now, Hillier returns to the Pacific Northwest college town where one killers stranglehold has ebbed . . . but another sick mind has waited for the perfect moment to pick up where the terror left off.

Sitting alone in a maximum-security prison cell, Abby Maddox is a celebrity. Her claim to fame is the envy of every freak on the outside: shes the former lover of Ethan Wolfe, the killer who left more than a dozen dead women in his wake and nearly added Puget Sound State professor Sheila Tao to the tally. Now Abby, serving a nine-year sentence for slashing a police officers throat in a moment of rage, has little human contactsave for the letters that pour in from demented fans, lunatics, and creeps. But a new wave of murders has given Abby a possible chance for a plea bargainbecause this killer has been sending her love letters, and carving a message on the bodies of the victims: Free Abby Maddox.

Jerry Isaac will never forget the attackor his attacker. The hideous scarring and tortured speech are daily reminders that the one-time Seattle PD officer, now a private investigator, is just lucky to be alive. Abby Maddox deserves to rot in jailforever, as far as Jerrys concerned. But she alone may possess crucial evidenceletters from this newest killerthat could crack open the disturbing case. With the help of Professor Sheila Tao, seasoned police detective Mike Torrance, and intuitive criminology student Danny Mercy, Jerry must coax the shattering truth from isolated, dangerous Abby Maddox. Can he put the pieces together before Abbys number one fan takes another life in the name of a killers perverted idea of justice?

Review

The second book in this series leaves readers hungry for the next. Taut and fraught with surprise twists, Hilliers thriller is addictive.--Kirkus

"This book freaked me out in a good way. In a word, frightening. Jennifer Hillier creates a truly scary killer in Abby Maddox, the female version of Hannibal Lecter smart, cunning and wickedly evil. I was engrossed on page one, couldnt put the book down and breathless at the ending. Be prepared for a late night's reading. Then sleep with the lights on if you can. This one blew me away."

--Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of Murder One

Freak is an exhilarating serial killer thrillerfast-paceda shocking final twist.--GumShoe Review

Freak is difficult to put down. --National Post

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About the Author

Jennifer Hillier made her fiction debut with Creep. Originally from Canada, she has also lived with her husband in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her on the web at JenniferHillier.org.