Book Review | Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths (Deadly Glimpses Book 2) by @StephenBKing1 #thriller #bo
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    • Aug 22, 2019
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Book Review | Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths (Deadly Glimpses Book 2) by @StephenBKing1 #thriller #bo


Title: Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths (Deadly Glimpses Book 2)

Author: Stephen B. King

Genre: Psychological Thriller, Suspense

Book Blurb:

Rick McCoy of the Major Crime Squad is trying to repair his marriage when he is sent to the South of Western Australia. A young girl’s body has been found in a cave, with flowers on her chest. A search finds five more bodies.

Beautiful criminal psychologist, Patricia Holmes, has recovered from her stab wounds inflicted by the serial killer PPP, and is brought in. Pat believes they are hunting a man who is addicted to beauty. When another school girl goes missing, they have only days before she too will die.

As their desire for each other grows and the pressure on their marriages increase, they close in on the man responsible for the beautiful deaths. Meanwhile, in the high-security wing of the mental health hospital, PPP plans his revenge on Rick.

My Review:

This book is a gem and one I found hard to put down. The author has created a serial killer unlike any ever seen in literature. The defining nature is the question: when is a serial killer not a murderer? - oft posed in the book and when properly answered is a mind-blowing concept.

This is the second book of the Glimpse series and in my view, this is the best work so far. The killer is someone who’s entirely fascinating to read about. The Moonlighting-esque interplay between Rick and Pat keeps the pages turning too. It does seem that Rick and Pat are married to the wrong people and a spouse swap might be the answer to all the angst. Of course, we all remember Moonlighting and nothing could put that humpty dumpty back together after Dave and Maddie did it.

Brilliant from start to finish and one that deserves a special place on the mantle. A murder mystery about a serial killer like you have never read before. Spectacular and makes the reader excited for book three (coming out September 11).

Recommended to every reader who enjoys a good crime mystery.

My Rating: 5+ stars

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Author Biography:

I left Perth, Australia to go East and find fame and fortune in the music business as a long-haired rock guitarist. I wrote poems and music, and my band used to open for some pretty big groups in my wild days. I gave it all up for love and got married (as you do when the right one comes along). Then, real life took over, children came along, and I threatened to write a book for so many years my long-suffering wife eventually pushed me into it by buying me a laptop and said: "No more excuses, do it." And so began this amazing journey. My first book, Forever Night, was contracted and published by now defunct Totally Entwined Group 's Evidence Press. It features a returned veteran soldier who has suffered horrifically, physically and mentally to become a serial killer while hunting for his runaway wife. As an SAS soldier he is far more highly trained to kill and survive, than the cops are trained to stop him. If you enjoy dark, Scandinavian type crime thrillers, you will love this story. That was followed by a trilogy, about the rise of a cop through the ranks from Detective to Detective Inspector, when his world falls apart. Domin8, is about a married man who is drawn into the dark world of online dating, until someone starts murdering his lovers. The Vigilante Taxi features a man who knows tragedy, his life has been full of it and with nothing to live for he becomes a vigilante during the night shift while driving his cab. When he falls in love, and wants to stop, it's too late; the cops and an underworld figure are closing in. Burial Ground, is about newly appointed Detective Inspector Sam Collins, who is handed the job of finding a serial killer who has been killing and burying his victims in an old disused gravel pit for seventeen years. He is a close to a pure psychotic evil as you will find, worse than Hannibal Lecter, or anything from the mind of the great Stephen King. Repo saw me return to two characters from Forever Night. New private investigator husband and wife sleuths trying to save a man from jail for a murder he did not commit. He returns home from working in a mine to find his wife gone, bank accounts empty, and fully restored classic muscle car repossessed. When his wife's body is found, he is arrested for murder. Dillon and Jayne enter a world of illegal poker games, protected by the underworld, to find the real killer and free their first client. Next, I wrote a beautiful love story/thriller about Jenny, who travels in time to come back to save the world from an all-consuming blight that was genetically modified. She falls in love in the past but can only stay for thirty-three days. This was picked up by my new publisher: The Wild Rose Press of NY. They have also contracted a trilogy, called The Deadly Glimpses. Book 1 is called Glimpse, Memoir of a Serial Killer,. Book 2, Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths and book 3, Glimpse, The Tender Killer will be released in three months. The trilogy follows the fortunes of two married colleges who are attracted to each other while working together to track down three murderers. What will the effect be on their marriages, and their relationship if they act on the desires they have? Thrillers and crime genres have always fascinated me, and in particular, the dark world of serial killers. I love a good, unputdownable, thriller. You know, the kind you just want to read one more chapter of at three in the morning before bed, but you have to be up at six to go to work. Have I succeeded in creating stories that can take people to that place? Boy I hope so.

Social Media Links:

www.stephen-b-king.com email: stephenk8@me.com Twitter: @StephenBKing1 Facebook: @stephenbkingauthor

Reviewed by: Mr. N

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