Cruel - (A Morris Brick Thriller) by Jacob Stone (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

""Jacob Stone is equal parts Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, and Stephen King. CRUEL will leave you shaking . . . with fear, excitement, and the uncontrollable compulsion to keep on reading."
--Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Fiction

"17." L.A. detective Morris Brick knows the number all too well. It was the gruesome signature the Nightmare Man left next to his victims' bodies. Brick's father was the first to investigate the killings. Five women were butchered before the perpetrator vanished. Seventeen years later he resurfaced--to kill again in the same depraved ways. Now another seventeen years have passed. Brick knows in his gut that it's time for the Nightmare Man to reawaken. But even Brick can't imagine the madman's true agenda. Or just how terrifying the sleepless nights are going to get in the City of Angels . . .

"Rarely is an author so skilled at portraying such unremitting evil and the poignant, human side of his characters in a single tale."
--Jeffery Deaver
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About the Author

His horror novel, The Caretaker of the Lorne Field, was short listed by the American Library Association for best horror novel of 2010, a Black Quill nominee for best dark genre book, and a Library Journal horror gem.

His Frankenstein retelling Monster was named by Booklist as one of the 10 best horror novels of the year, and by WBUR as one of the best novels of the year.

His mystery fiction is regularly published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, has won Shamus and Derringer awards, and twice has won the Ellery Queen's Readers Choice award.

Dave's novels have been translated to German, French, Italian, Dutch, Lithuanian, and Thai. His novel Small Crimes has been made into a film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Molly Parker, Gary Cole, Robert Forster, and Jacki Weaver, and can be seen on Netflix. His novels Outsourced and The Caretaker of Lorne Field are currently in development.