He shot to his feet, intent upon disarming her. Instead he was gang tackled by two burly police officers who seemed to come from nowhere. Another was shining a bull's-eye lamp on them.
A detective came up from the rear. "Good work, Sharon," he said to the prostitute decoy as he gingerly took the gun from her trembling hands. "We couldn't have nabbed the bloody bastard without your help!"
She took an involuntary step back as the suspect glared at her with a wickedness that chilled her very soul.
"Believe you me, it was a real pleasure," she responded. "Now maybe working girls won't have to keep looking over their shoulders 'round every corner, aye!"
The detective grinned at her lasciviously then narrowed his gaze at the suspect. "Get him out of here," he ordered. "The sooner we put the mad doctor behind bars, the better—"
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R. Barri Flowers is an award winning criminologist and bestselling author of more than seventy books, including thriller and mystery fiction, young adult mysteries, and true crime books.
Fiction titles include mysteries and thrillers such as Before He Kills Again, Dark Streets of Whitechapel, Fractured Trust, Murder in Maui, Murder in Honolulu, State's Evidence, and Justice Served.
Young adult fiction includes Count Dracula's Teenage Daughter, Danger in Time, Ghost Girl in Shadow Bay, Out for Blood, and Summer at Paradise Ranch.
True crime titles include The Amityville Massacre, Murder of the Banker's Daughter, The Sex Slave Murders 1 and 2, The Pickaxe Killers, Murder at the Pencil Factory, Killers of the Lonely Hearts, Dead at the Saddleworth Moor, and Masters of True Crime.
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