The Playing Card Killer

✍ Scribed by James, Russell

• Publisher: Flame Tree Press; FLAME TREE Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Series: Fiction without frontiers
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Brian Sheridan may be losing his mind. Its getting hard to know whats real.

Hes plagued by dreams of women strangled with a red velvet rope, their corpses left with a signature playing card. And while awake, hes hallucinating a strange man who appears to be stalking him. Brian hopes all this is driven by his sudden withdrawal from a lifetime of anti-anxiety medications.

Then the victim from one of his nightmares shows up on the news. Shes been murdered and Brian immediately fears he may be the unwitting killer.

Detective Eric Weissbard thinks the same thing, and starts to build a case to get Brian behind bars and stop the string of horrific murders by the man the press have dubbed The Playing Card Killer.

Can being proven innocent be worse than being found guilty? That may be the case as the truth about The Playing Card Killer sucks Brian into a whirlpool of kidnapping, torture, and death.

And Weissbard is starting to have second thoughts about the evidence, and sees it may be pointing to someone else. Its up to him to work outside the system to find the real killer before another victim dies. And that victim may be Brian.

✦ Subjects

Detective and mystery stories