The 50/50 Killer

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2007
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Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mackey - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mackey's team. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems ...

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Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mackey - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mackey's team. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems ...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Publisher: Orion
Published: 19 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0752874128
ISBN 13: 9780752874128
Book Overview: Steve Mosby has always been a brilliant writer, but with THE 50/50 KILLER he has come up with a striking concept that will take him to a whole new market of crime fans. Powerful, emotional and with a knock-out-twist, this new novel will put Mosby on the map It is very rare for UK writers to have this high concept approach so early on in their careers. Like Mark Billingham before him, Steve has the potential to be a commercial as well as a critical success Steve's other great strength is that he handles intense emotion extremely well. His novels are both disturbing and moving - all he needs is for that to be channelled in a more mainstream direction. This is the book to do that 'Mosby has packed a complex, sometimes bewildering plot with brilliant ideas. His book is fiercely orginal, truly intriguing. This is speculative fiction at its reckless best' Literary Review 'An excellent noir thriller ... Mosby manages to encompass intense emotion, intellectual musings and vicious violence' Guardian

Author Bio

Steve Mosby lives and works in Leeds. He is the author of two novels and is currently working on his third. Visit his website at: www.theleftroom.co.uk.

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