The Death Collectors - Jack Kerley

Throughout my life I have collected many different things - I am after all, a man. It started with broken pottery from my garden. I then moved on to bookmarks. For a time I collected fizzy pop cans. My eye was then drawn to videos. My book collection increased next. I then re-bought all videos in DVD format. I also found myself with a large collection of computer games. In fact, there is no hope for me even 20 years on after I picked up my first piece of broken pottery as I glance at my swollen bookcase and burgeoning BluRay collection. I may be a goner, but at least my collections are wholesome (to an extent). I don't collect murder weapons used in vicious ...  Read the complete review

It’s 1972 and Marsden Hexcamp is in court awaiting sentencing after three weeks on trial for murder. Death by electrocution is announced as punishment for his hideous crimes, only that won’t actually be necessary...a mysterious weeping woman quickly enters the room and shoots Hexcamp at point blank range, then proceeding to turn the gun on herself, bringing an end to her tears. Thirty years later, a murder has been committed in Mobile, Alabama. The gruesome manner in which the corpse has been ‘displayed’ suggests a rather sadistic mind at work. Detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus are called in to investigate. As the duo who form the local ...  Read the complete review