Slaughtered
by KA
Lugo
GENRE: Thriller
BLURB:
The Texter
Fallen homicide detective, Jack Slaughter, closes the door on the home where his perfect family has been brutally snatched from him. Moving across the city, he works as a private investigator to fund his own investigation into what happened to his family—who killed his little girl, Zoë, and where is his wife, Leah?
Every three month for the last three years, Jack receives a simple text telling him where he can find his missing wife. There’s a body at each location, but none of them are Leah.
Jack hates missing person’s cases, but they’re his bread and butter. He only takes the case to find Carl Boyd's missing wife because the details of her disappearance closely match Leah’s. He hopes by finding Bonnie Boyd, he'll find his own wife.
The Butcher
Following the leads in the Bonnie Boyd case, Jack discovers someone has been killing women all over the city for the last three years, a fact Jack’s ex-partner and still best friend, Ray Navarro, has neglected to tell him. The city has a serial killer and officials haven’t been able to find a single lead on the person they’ve dubbed The Butcher.
Could Bonnie Boyd’s disappearance be linked to The Butcher? More important, was Leah one of The Butcher’s victims? Could he have gone so far as to murder a child?
With every clue Jack weaves together, the more his own life unravels.
Fallen homicide detective, Jack Slaughter, closes the door on the home where his perfect family has been brutally snatched from him. Moving across the city, he works as a private investigator to fund his own investigation into what happened to his family—who killed his little girl, Zoë, and where is his wife, Leah?
Every three month for the last three years, Jack receives a simple text telling him where he can find his missing wife. There’s a body at each location, but none of them are Leah.
Jack hates missing person’s cases, but they’re his bread and butter. He only takes the case to find Carl Boyd's missing wife because the details of her disappearance closely match Leah’s. He hopes by finding Bonnie Boyd, he'll find his own wife.
The Butcher
Following the leads in the Bonnie Boyd case, Jack discovers someone has been killing women all over the city for the last three years, a fact Jack’s ex-partner and still best friend, Ray Navarro, has neglected to tell him. The city has a serial killer and officials haven’t been able to find a single lead on the person they’ve dubbed The Butcher.
Could Bonnie Boyd’s disappearance be linked to The Butcher? More important, was Leah one of The Butcher’s victims? Could he have gone so far as to murder a child?
With every clue Jack weaves together, the more his own life unravels.
Excerpt:
"You’re
still struggling with your guilt, Jack. You know there was nothing you could
have done to prevent what happened."
"I
should have been there, Nick. I could have been home earlier." Jack’s
voice hitched.
From
the corner of his eye, he saw Nick calmly gazing at him. Were priests trained
to remain composed around people who were on the verge of insanity? He was on
that knife blade. Every goddamn day.
"Were
you ever home earlier?" For a moment, silence floated between them.
"And how much earlier? Five minutes or an hour? Who’s to say this wouldn’t
have happened on another night?"
Jack
scrubbed a shaking fist across his forehead, trying to stop the building
pressure there. "How many times do you think I’ve beat myself up over
that?" He shot his gaze back at the priest, unintentional anger in his
voice as he spoke. "Had he already tried on other nights? If I had been
home earlier that night, would he have tried again on another night? Was he
going to keep trying until he could finally get in when I wasn’t there? Or was
he really after me, but took his anger out on my family instead?" He
stopped short; he was now practically yelling at the priest.
His
heart pounded hard in his chest, nearly robbing him of breath. The frustration
of being so out of control was almost too much to bear. He gazed deeply into
the glass in his hands, as if somehow the whiskey’s amber depths foretold his
future. How much more could he take before it became too much?
Not
for the first time, he swallowed hard at the thought of eating his gun. He
couldn’t—not before he found Leah and administered his own justice on his
daughter’s killer.
"Jack."
Nick’s too-calm voice seemed to echo in the quiet room. "Don’t let this
pull you into the darkness."
Had
the priest read his mind? Jack downed the whiskey in one go. "Too
late."
My Review:
Jack Slaughter’s life was turned upside down and his heart
ripped right out of his chest the day he came home and walked into his house
only to find the body of his little girl a toddler and the family dog murdered
with his wife missing.
Jack was a homicide detective but that day changed his life
forever taking with it his family and his job. Now Jack works for himself as a
private investigator.
When Bonnie Boyd turns up missing her husband hires Jack to
find her. Jack doesn’t like working on missing person’s cases as they hit too
close to home but his best friend and ex-partner ask him to take the case so he
can’t say no.
Bodies of women have been turning up all over the city for
the last three years. Jack receives a text every time one of the women are murdered
telling him where the body is and each time Jack races out the door wondering
if it will be his wife. Each time Jack wonders if this time it will be his wife
and he can find the closures he needs to move on with his life.
Slaughtered is filled with mystery and suspense from the
first word until the last. Jack will have you racing all over town with him
trying to find this serial killer and looking for the missing woman Bonnie and
his wife as well. Jack will be looking for his missing wife around every corner
until the day he finds her. He will never stop looking for her as he believes
she is out there somewhere.
Slaughtered is one of those books that will have you
guessing from the moment you pick it up and it will have you trying to figure
out who the killer is but loving to hang on to its secrets and not letting go
until the very end and even then it still has a few secrets up its sleeve
leaving you wanting more.
I can’t wait for the next book in the Jack Slaughter
Thrillers to see what Jack has in store for us and hopefully we will find out
more about his wife in future books as I have this feeling that the Jack
Slaughter Thrillers are not going to give up any of its secrets easily.
I would recommend Slaughtered to anyone who loves a good
mystery with lots of suspense.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
K.A. Lugo is a native Northern Californian who
grew up in Carmel-by-the-Sea, part of a larger community founded by artists and
writers, including John Steinbeck, George Sterling, and Jack London. Over the
years, she's worked with several Carmel notables, but it was in 1997 she left
the employ of Clint Eastwood to live in Ireland for six months. It was during
this time she met the man she would marry, and relocated to live in Ireland.
While always writing
since a very young age, K.A. earned her keep in Ireland as one of the country's
foremost travel consultants who also wrote travel articles about Ireland.
Since 2005, K.A. has
published fourteen titles in genres including romantic suspense, erotic
romance, cozy mystery, and now thrillers.
Slaughtered is the first
in the new highly acclaimed Jack Slaughter Thriller series, set in San
Francisco, a city close to K.A.'s heart.
K.A. loves hearing from
readers and promises to reply to each message. Please visit her socials to stay
up-to-date on this exciting new series.
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Thank you so much for hosting me today, and for your review. Much appreciated!
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