A MOB BOSS IS EATEN ALIVE BY TIGERS AT THE BRONX ZOO. A New Jersey factory owner is mutilated and left to bleed out under a Manhattan highway. A French pharmaceutical baron is tortured and frozen to death in Little Italy. A high-society fashion designer is poisoned in her Upper East Side apartment. Four months, four unsolved murders – each carried out on the last Saturday night of the month. The victims share no similar traits, have no connections to each other, have no common enemies, and were each killed in very different ways. NYPD Detectives Mike Stoneman and Jason Dickson pick up the trail based on the coincidental timing of the unsolved murders. Could these assassinations really be the work of a single serial killer? Why would a single killer choose such strange and disparate methods? Why spread your victims across all of New York? And most importantly, how do you track down someone with no discernable pattern? Each new murder adds a piece to the killer's jigsaw puzzle, but even unravelling the clues and finding the killer's pattern may not be enough to catch him. Mike and Jason bring in help from FBI profiler Angela Manning, and together they start to close in. But will they be able to stop the elusive killer before he completes his decathlon of death? Each month is a race against the calendar. On the last Saturday of the month, there will be blood. Follow Detective Mike Stoneman as he tries to outwit a most complex killer. Then, as a special free bonus, read the award-winning short story, Fool Me Twice, the very first episode in the Mike Stoneman saga.
Other books by Kevin Chapman
I am an attorney, and while my whole professional life involves writing briefs and argumentative position statements, my novel-writing career has been a long and slow process. I wrote my first novel in 1991, after being laid off from my law firm job. I had time on my hands and a story in my head – a private investigator mystery – which I finished a year or so later (after I was back working). But, Identity Crisis: A Rick LaBlonde Mystery, was not published until 2003 when my wife paid for the self-publication through Xlibris as an anniversary present to me. From there, beginning in about 2004, I set out to write the Great American Novel, and over the next ten years or so I did just that, finally self-publishing A Legacy of One in 2016 through Amazon’s Create Space self-publishing arm. A Legacy of One is a serious work of literary fiction, about identity, self-determination, morality, and the consequences of our decisions, all set within a political drama. The book was a short-list finalist for the Somerset award for literary fiction (Chanticleer International Book Awards). The journey to finally publish my second novel, combined with my children growing up and going off to college and their own careers, left me with an itch to keep writing, and enough free time to do it.
I have written a few screenplay drafts and some short stories, but I set out to write my third novel in 2017 and went back to the detective-mystery-thriller genre, which is frankly more fun (as well as more likely to get read) than serious literary fiction. My latest novel is, I think, my best effort to date and a truly good read. The characters are well-developed and have deep back-stories, the interrelationships make a good sub-story to go along with the main plot, and the final plot developments provide a solid basis for the continuation of the characters’ stories into the next book(s). I’m hoping that enough readers find Righteous Assassin that there will be interest in the next Mike Stoneman thriller.
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