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According
to the book description of The Coldest Fear, “the first victim is murdered in a Marriott Airport
hotel room on the outskirts of Evansville, Indiana. Her eyes and the left hand are removed from the scene and her tongue has
been cut out and stuffed in the tub drain where she is found floating in blood. Jack Murphy realizes that this is not just
another vicious murder when the body of a second victim is discovered only hours later on the floor of her kitchen in the
south-side projects. The missing hand from the first victim is propped by the victims bloody head, the middle finger prominently
displayed to those finding the body. A day later a third victim is found, this time gutted and strung up from the bottom of
a bridge, left to bend and sway with the current of the Pigeon Creek. With all of these murders, one newspaper reporter seems
to have a direct line to the killer, and a secret he wants to keep hidden.”
According
to the book description of The Cruelest Cut, “the first victim is attacked in her home. Tied
to her bed. Forced to watch every unspeakable act of cruelty - but unable to scream. The second murder is even more twisted.
Signed, sealed, and delivered with a message for the police, stuffed in the victim's throat. A fractured nursery rhyme that
ends with a warning: 'There will be more'. For detective Jack Murphy, it's more than a threat. It's a personal invitation
to play. And no one plays rougher than Jack. Especially when the killer's pawns are the people he loves.”
According to the book description of Blood
Trail, “In 2003, sadistic sexual predator Joseph W. Brown claimed to have strangled Hendrix with his favourite
murder weapon: a shoelace from a woman's size-eight shoe. Ginger Gasaway, 53, met Brown at a Gambler's Anonymous meeting.
She didn't know that when she took up with him, she was gambling with her life. On August 30, 2000, Brown murdered Gasaway
and scattered her body parts across three Indiana counties. For this grisly crime, he would be sentenced to life in prison
without parole. But it wouldn't be his first time behind bars...In 1977, Brown had been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping
and armed robbery. In 1995, he was released despite the fact that he'd beaten a fellow inmate nearly to death. Brown later
confessed that during the next five years, he indulged in a seven-state rampage of torture and murder, his victims female
hitchhikers and prostitutes. Now doing time in Wabash Valley Corrections Centre, Brown maintains that he murdered no less
than thirteen other women.”
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