The scariest kind of serial killerone you dont know exists

Martin Barlow was Clare Carlsons first newspaper editor, a beloved mentor who inspired her career as a journalist. But, since retiring from his newspaper job, he had become a kind of pathetic figurerailing on about conspiracies, cover-ups, and other imaginary stories he was still working on. Clare had been too busy with her own career to pay much attention to him.

When Martin Barlow is killed on the street one night during an apparent mugging attempt gone bad, it seems like he was just an old man whose time had come.

But Clareinitially out of a sense of guilt for ignoring her old friend and then because of her own journalistic instinctsbegins looking into his last story idea. As she digs deeper and deeper into his secret files, she uncovers shocking evidence of a serial killer worse than Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, or any of the other infamous names in history.

This really is the biggest story of Martin Barlows careerand Clares, tooas she uncovers the path leading to the decades-long killer of at least twenty young women. All is not as it seems during Clares relentless search for this serial killer. Is she setting herself up to be his next victim?

Clare Carlson is perfect for fans of Sue Graftons Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretskys V.I. Warshawski

While all of the novels in the Clare Carlson Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:

Yesterdays News
Below the Fold
The Last Scoop
Beyond the Headlines
Its News to Me
Broadcast Blues (coming 2024)

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