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Dead Tell Lies

“An extremely gripping and fast-paced crime thriller . . . will draw you in from the very start [and] blindside you with disturbing twists and turns.” —The Eclectic Review

What happens when the hunter becomes the prey?

Greg Adams, a criminal psychologist at Scotland Yard, specialises in bringing serial killers to justice. He is at the top of his game, having just put away his sixth serial killer when his wife, Kate, is brutally murdered by another predator known as the Dreamer.

A year later, unable to bring the killer to justice, Greg has quit his job and is ready to end it all, when he receives a phone call from a man who tells him the Dreamer is dead, and that he didn’t kill Kate.

Greg returns to Scotland Yard to work for Superintendent Chief Detective Donaldson in the hope he can re-examine the case with the help of two new detectives.

As Greg delves into the case further, he becomes more convinced that the Dreamer wasn’t the man responsible for his wife’s murder.

But if it wasn’t The Dreamer, who was it?

In order to solve the mystery around his wife’s murder, Greg is going to have to delve even deeper into the mind of a terrifying psychopath. And this time he might not make it back in one piece . . .

“Packed full of action and there is never a dull moment. It’s easy to pick up but impossible to put down once you are in the thick of the narrative and dying to know what happens next.” —ReviewsFeed

J.F. Kirwan

J.F. Kirwan is an insomniac and coffee-addict who lives just outside Paris. He believes the best time to write thrillers is in the dead of night when everyone is sleeping. He studied psychology, including some chilling lectures from a criminology professor who used to interview serial killers, which in part inspired his forthcoming novel with Bloodhound. His day job involves trying to prevent large-scale accidents (mainly airplanes and nuclear power plants). Studying them over the years has given him a sense of how catastrophic events start off slow, simmer awhile, then gather speed and accelerate towards the final event. He channels this experience into his writing, and calls it tourniquet plotting. His second main passion is diving, and as a dive instructor, he's been lucky enough to dive all over the world, and wrote a spy thriller trilogy with a strong diving element, the Nadia Laksheva series (66 Metres; 37 Hours; 88 North). His current focus though is on serial killers: what makes them tick, and how close to sanity’s edge you need to be to catch them.

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