A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous "Beacon Hill Butcher" was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now, some thirty years later, Shank, retired and widowed, is giving up his large rambling Victorian house to his grandson Matt, whom he helped raise.
Settling back into his childhood home and doing some renovations in the backyard to make the house feel like his own, Matt, a young up-and-coming chef and restaurateur, stumbles upon a locked crate he's never seen before. Curious, he picks the padlock and makes a discovery so gruesome it will forever haunt him… Faced with this deep dark family secret, Matt must decide whether to keep what he knows buried in the past, go to the police, or take matters into his own hands.
Meanwhile Matt's girlfriend, Sam, has always suspected that her mother was murdered by the Beacon Hill Butcher-two years afterthe supposed Butcher was gunned down. As she pursues leads that will prove her right, Sam heads right into the path of Matt's terrible secret.
A thriller with taut, fast-paced suspense, and twists around every corner, The Butcherwill keep you guessing until the bitter, bloody end.
- ISBN10 1476734216
- ISBN13 9781476734217
- Publish Date 29 January 2015 (first published 15 July 2014)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Gallery
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English