The Cruelest Cut

by Rick Reed

Book Overview

When a killer plays mind games with a cop, There Are No Rules. 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...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786024836
• ISBN13: 9780786024834
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.1" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

1st in series

Kick off book to a series introducing Detective Jack Murphy & his partner Liddell investigating a grisly murder of a child near Jack's home. The killers know Jack and are starting to play a game of murder while leaving notes in the bodies with nursery rhymes inviting Jack to play. Meanwhile, the local news station reporter Maddie is receiving the same notes with more clues. Demanding access to the murders she, the power hungry deputy chief of police, & the mayor all dog the investigations for their own purposes. Jack & Liddell's team work around them to try and find the suspects before more murders happen. A string of killings and rhymes with challenges to Jack pull him deeper into the depths of the killers depravity. Fast paced, intriguing, and can't put down read.