Hush Little Baby (9 page)
Authors: James Carol
In the Jefferson Winter series
It takes a genius to catch a psychopath
Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator. The son of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, Winter has spent his life trying to distance himself from his father’s legacy. Once a rising star at the FBI, he is now a freelance consultant, jetting around the globe helping local law enforcement agencies with difficult cases. He’s not got Da Vinci’s IQ, but he’s pretty close.
When he accepts a particularly disturbing case in London, Winter arrives to find a city in the grip of a cold snap, with a psychopath on the loose who likes abducting and lobotomising young women. Winter must use all his preternatural brain power in order to work out who is behind the attacks, before another young woman becomes a victim. As Winter knows all too well, however, not everyone who’s broken can be fixed.
‘A brilliant, conflicted profiler.’
Stephen Fry
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It takes a genius to unmask madness
Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter has taken a new case in sunny Louisiana, where the only thing more intense than the heat is a killer on the loose in the small town of Eagle Creek.
Sam Galloway, a prominent lawyer from one of Eagle Creek’s most respected families, has been murdered. All the sheriff’s department have to go on, however, is a film of Galloway that shows him being burned alive.
Enter Jefferson Winter, whose expertise is serial criminals. But in a town where secrets are rife and history has a way of repeating itself, can Winter solve the case before someone else dies?
‘Toe-clenching, nail-biting, peep-from-behind-your-fingers suspense.’
S. J. Bolton
‘Jefferson Winter is a welcome new genius, and I can't wait to meet him again.’
Neil White
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The Jefferson Winter Chronicles
Five victims. One killer. An open and shut case?
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?
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James Carol is the creator of the eccentric genius Jefferson Winter, a former FBI profiler who travels the world hunting serial criminals. The Jefferson Winter Thriller series includes
Broken Dolls
,
Watch Me
,
and an e-book novella,
Presumed Guilty
, set during Winter’s FBI days.
Broken Dolls
became an e-book bestseller on publication, while
Watch Me
has been selected for the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Bookclub.
Prey
, the third full-length Jefferson Winter thriller, will be published in spring 2015.
James lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children.
For more information please visit
www.james-carol.com
Praise for the series:
‘James Carol is a non-American who has mastered the idiom of the US thriller . . . But Carol is no Child clone, and carves out his own menacing canvas with real panache.’
Barry Forshaw,
Independent
‘If there’s one thing I love, a guilty but undeniable pleasure, it’s a cracking procedural serial murder thriller.
Broken Dolls
has it all. Horrifying evil, a brilliant, conflicted profiler and cracking pace and tension. 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
‘Visceral and gripping . . . made me gasp in horror. Jefferson Winter is a welcome new genius, and I can’t wait to meet him again.’
Neil White
‘A crazed serial killer, an eccentric FBI investigator, a tough female cop – all the ingredients here blend to make a brilliant police procedural. Jefferson Winter has to track down a psychopath whose fetish is to lobotomise women. The first of a series, this promises great, grisly things.’
Sunday Mirror
‘Strikingly well-researched and written with a real swagger, it leaves you desperate for more.’
Daily Mail
‘A rapid-fire read.’
Euro Crime
also by James Carol
BROKEN DOLLS
WATCH ME
The Jefferson Winter Chronicles:
PRESUMED GUILTY
First published in ebook only in 2014
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