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5.0 out of 5 stars
Is There a New Monster In Town?, Mar 28 2004
One day, in the small town of Treadway, Ardis Peake ambled into the kitchen and calmly cut off his mother's head, then he went upstairs where the couple of the household lay asleep and brutally dispatched them as well. Not finished with his killing spree, he went down the hall to visit the children's room. The five-year-old girl was found without her eyes and, as for the baby boy, the police followed Ardis' bloody footprints out of the house to the shack where Ardis lay peacefully asleep. A pot was boiling away on the stove. The baby was in it.They locked Ardis "Monster" Peake up in the Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where he remained for fifteen years non-verbal, non-responsive, non-violent, probably because of his Thorazine diet. However on two different occasions he spoke, but only long enough to predict two violent deaths. The doctors at the asylum swear there is no way Ardis could have gotten out. But Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are certain there's a deadly link between Peake and the deaths, the murders are too similar. Is there a new monster? And if so is he somehow communicating with the old one? The clues lead them back to Treadway where the Peake had gone on his rampage, but the trail is old and cold as the town is gone, in its place now, a retirement community. However, maybe that trail isn't quiet so cold as first thought, maybe there is a clue or two around, but can Alex and Milo figure them out before someone else is brutally murdered? In "Monster" Alex and Milo are into one of their most gruesome cases yet, a case full of surprises, red herrings and lots of twists and turns. The book is fast-paced, tense, powerful and an excellent read.
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