Emily Thompson series by Shane Gericke (#02,3)
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Overview: Shane, whose last name is improbably pronounced YER-kee, spent two decades as a newspaper editor, most prominently at the Chicago Sun-Times, before turning to fiction. He keeps his hand in nonfiction by writing for digital media. An original member of International Thriller Writers, he was chairman of the ThrillerFest literary festival in New York City and founding director of its agent-author matching program, PitchFest. He’s judged the Edgar, Thriller, MWA, and St. Martin’s awards, and belongs to Mystery Writers of America and the Society of Midland Authors. He lives in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, the home of world-famous detective Dick Tracy, with whom Shane shares no resemblance except steely jaw and manly visage.
Genre: Mystery Thriller
2. Cut to the Bone
Emily Thompson, the hard-charging Naperville Police officer who barely escaped with her life in Shane Gericke’s series debut Blown Away, has been promoted to detective. She’s fallen in love with Martin Benedetti, the county sheriff’s homicide commander. They’re building their dream house in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, where she lives and works. Life is good as she slowly recovers from her jagged wounds, both physical and emotional . . .
Until another serial killer decides to crash the party and match wits with a cop he believes should have died in the noose of the first killer’s "Hangman" game.
In Cut to the Bone, a stone-cold multiple murderer is scheduled to die in the state electric chair in Naperville. He’d kidnapped an expectant mother, cut the baby out her womb, and gave it to his girlfriend, who’d wanted kids but didn’t want to ruin her figure giving birth. The screams of the dying mother alerted nearby police officers, who gave chase. The killer smashed the infant against a tree trying to escape. The cops caught him anyway. He was tried, and now he’ll fry.
But Emily Thompson’s newest foe, who calls himself The Executioner, decides that he, not the cops, jury, state, governor, or a mere detective, is this man’s god of life and death. So he attacks Emily to get inside the death house and free the baby – and mom-killer, even as the electrical generator winds up to deliver its killing punch.
An electrical killing punch that Emily takes full-force . . .
This fictional crime was inspired by a ghastly real-life one in the Chicago suburb of Addison. In November, 1995, Jacqueline Williams’s boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, murdered a pregnant woman, Debra Evans, and cut her nearly full-term fetus from her body. To eliminate witnesses, he and Williams also murdered Evans’s ten-year-old daughter, Samantha, and eight-year-old son, Joshua. A third child, Jordan, was spared because, they thought, children under the age of two couldn’t be reliable witnesses.
The cut-out boy, named Eli, survived. Jordan and Eli are being raised by Evans’s grandfather. Caffey and Williams were sentenced to death. That was commuted to life without parole when then-Illinois Governor George Ryan banned capital punishment in Illinois.
3. Torn Apart
A finalist for the Thriller Award for Best Novel and named a Book of the Year by Suspense Magazine, Naperville Police Detective Emily Thompson’s third plunge into murderous madness is her most personal and dangerous yet.
A four-pack of spree killers who call themselves the Zodiacs picks up a shipment of narcotics from Black River Falls, Wisconsin, with the intention of hauling it to the Chicago suburbs for distribution. On the way, they shoot cops, murder hitchhikers, and machine-gun beautiful, multi-horned deer just for the fun of it.
They arrive in Naperville to drop their narco load at a nondescript house on the city’s north side. But their dingy, battered van looks suspicious to Annabelle Bates, a down-the-street neighbor who also commands SWAT for the Naperville Police Department. She and Emily, who’s visiting best friend Annie that morning, walk toward the van. The Zodiacs spot them, grab one of Annie’s daughters as a hostage, and take off. A wild chase through the winding, tree-lined streets of Naperville ensues, but the Zodiacs shake their pursuers.
They quickly sell Annie’s daughter to a kiddie-porn ring that will drug the girl with a new synthetic narcotic called "Katrina," video-record her rape by a variety of men, and sell it on the Dark Net, the seedy part of the Internet unreachable by public search engines and where monsters worldwide buy and trade drugs, guns, sex, animals, and children.
Emily, Annie, Martin Benedetti, Hercules Branch, Chief Kendall Cross, and the rest of the police gang race to save the child of a cop. And even if they pull off that miracle – no sure thing, as nobody knows where the Zodiacs disappeared – they must simultaneously deal with tragic murder of one of their own.
And finally, you’ll meet the magical deer who saves the life of a critically wounded sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin, despite being machine-gunned itself by the Zodiacs . . .
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