A Jefferson Winter Novella
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The first in a special eBook only series: The Jefferson Winter Chronicles, featuring Jefferson Winter from bestselling eBook Broken Dolls, and introducing his mentor, Yoko Tanaka. Together they make an unforgettable team.
Special Agent Yoko Tanaka is one of the best profilers in the FBI. She's observant, smart and professional, but doesn't really play well with others. She's been called in to consult on the case of 'Valentino', a killer who steals his victims' hearts. Literally.
With five women already dead, time is running out for the police to catch the killer before he strikes again. Within twenty-four hours of Yoko's arrival they have a suspect in custody: a precocious nineteen-year-old kid called Jefferson Winter whose IQ is off the charts. He's also a textbook psychopath and the son of one of America's most notorious serial killers. Not only does he confess to the murders, he knows details of the crimes that only the killer could know. It's an open and shut case, or is it?
The next full-length Jefferson Winter novel, WATCH ME, is publishing in August, but if you can't wait that long then try BROKEN DOLLS, out now in paperback and eBook.
Jefferson Winter returns in a gripping ebook story from bestselling author James Carol.
Jefferson Winter is at the beginning of his FBI career. He's young and unpredictable, but he has a gift - he can understand the mind of a murderer like no one else.
Winter is in Las Vegas with Yoko Tanaka, a tough agent with the unenviable task of showing him the ropes. The bodies of three young women have been found and each of them is missing a limb.
If the case is to be solved, Winter must be free to act - yet Tanaka's superiors are watching closely, and it soon becomes clear that this killer doesn't make mistakes.
The next full-length Jefferson Winter novel, The Quiet Man, will be published in May 2017.
PRAISE FOR JAMES CAROL:
'You'll finish this book and be straight online to find out when the next one's coming.'
Mark Billingham
'Leaves you desperate for more.'
Daily Mail
'I read it in what seemed like two trembling gulps.'
Stephen Fry
'Toe-clenching, nail-biting, peep-from-behind-your-fingers suspense.'
S. J. Bolton
'Brilliant.'
Sunday Mirror
'Carol carves out his own menacing canvas with real panache.'
Independent
FBI profiler Yoko Tanaka is in Tampa, Florida helping the local PD with their 'Sandman' case. Three mothers and their daughters have been found murdered in their homes. The mothers have been brutally stabbed while the little girls' have been smothered in their beds and posed to look like they're sleeping.
Defying FBI protocol, Yoko makes a detour to Sarasota to entice Jefferson Winter to join the case. Winter has now graduated from college and is playing piano in a tourist bar. At first he's reluctant to get involved but that's the thing with Winter, what he says and what he means are usually two different things. All Yoko knows is that he's the only person who can help her before the Sandman claims another two victims . . . but what Winter doesn't know is that Yoko might be the only person who can help him come to terms with his past.
If you enjoy HUSH LITTLE BABY then you might like to try the first eBook chronicle, PRESUMED GUILTY, or the full-length thrillers, BROKEN DOLLS and WATCH ME.