Book description
The Killer is the final novella in award-winning author R. J.
Ellory's electrifying ebook trilogy, THREE DAYS IN CHICAGOLAND. The
testimonies of the sister, the cop and the killer will at last reveal
the dreadful truth behind the brutal murder of a young girl in Chicago
in 1956.
Let's face facts here-there's some folks who just shouldn't be
allowed to raise up kids.
Harsh, but true.
I'd have to include myself among them, for sure, but I reckon my
father would get top billing.
I've been in Chicago for over ten years now. I was raised in
Taylorville, Illinois, but I fled here back in '46. Not before I took a
childhood of batterings from my old man, and saw my ma suffer vicious
beating after vicious beating. Oh yeah, Ray Woodroffe regretted both his
marriage and his kids, and he didn't shy away from showing us. So I came
here. Earned some money, got a place of my own. But that kind of cruelty
leaves its mark. It's hereditary. And it found its way into my heart, my
bones, my blood. I've been living with guilt a good long time now and
finally it's time to make amends. I am a killer and tomorrow morning at
ten o'clock, not a moment sooner or later, I am going to die in the
electric chair.
Includes an exclusive preview of Ellory's gripping new novel, A
Dark and Broken Heart.
R. J. Ellory is the critically acclaimed author of nine previous
novels including the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels
, which was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel
Observateur Crime Fiction Prize.
Ellory's novels have been translated into twenty-three languages, and
he has won the USA Excellence Award for Best Mystery, the Strand
Magazine Best Thriller 2009, the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of
the Year for A Simple Act of Violence
and the Quebec Laureat. He has been shortlisted for a further thirteen
awards in numerous countries, including four Dagger Awards from the UK
Crime Writers' Association.
Despite the American setting of his novels, Ellory is British and
currently lives in England with his wife and son.
To find out more visit www. rjellory. com
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