By Blood Written - Hardcover

Steven Womack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 072786209X ISBN 13: 9780727862099

Publisher: Severn House, 2005

Synopsis

At first, it was just research . . . After several critically acclaimed novels, Michael Schiftmann has yet to make the kind of living he thinks due him; any kind of living at all, in fact. His novels have been described as literate and multi-layered, but as Michael knows all too well, literate doesn't sell. One drunken, depressed night, it comes to him. Readers want glitz and violence he'll give it to them. He'll create a series of novels featuring the boldest, coldest serial killer ever imagined. He'll get inside the murderer's head in ways no writer has ever done. Every emotion, every sensation, every delicious moment will be captured on the page. But to do this, he'll have to discover for himself what it feels like to actually kill someone. And what Michael Schiftmann discovers is that murder feels good.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Womack is the ""New York Times"" Notable, Edgar(R) and Shamus awards-winning author of ten novels, including ""Dead Folks' Blues"" and ""Dirty Money"". He lives with his wife and two daughters in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is also a professor of screenwriting at Watkins Film School.

From Booklist:

Michael Schiftmann, born in a Cleveland slum, is a highly intelligent, urbane author of a grisly, best-selling series about a serial killer. But beneath Michael's charming exterior lurks a cold-blooded psychopathic killer. The brutal murders he commits serve, as Michael puts it, as "background research" for his books, which feed on "society's sick fascination with violence." He has committed 13 murders, each time leaving behind a letter of the alphabet written in the victim's blood. After the brutalized bodies of Michael's two latest victims are discovered in a massage parlor in Nashville, FBI agent Hank Powell decides he can't rest until the "Alphabet Man" is caught. It takes just one slipup on Michael's part for Powell to get close enough to capture him. But Michael refuses to acknowledge defeat and conjures up a few more ghastly surprises. Although the prose is occasionally uneven, the plot is chockablock with unusual twists, the tension is palpable, and the denouement is terrifying. An edge-of-the-seat thriller. Emily Melton
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About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 072786209X
• ISBN 13: 9780727862099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 347