BONE THIEF - Softcover

O'Callaghan, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1952225108 ISBN 13: 9781952225109

Publisher: WildBlue Press, 2020

Synopsis

“Sweeps the reader along its breathless, tumbling course …” — Peter Straub, Bram Stoker Award winning author of A DARK MATTER

A sociopathic killer is using the internet to lure seemingly random women to their gruesome deaths in New York City. During his heinous murderous spree this madman is extracting the bones of his victims. His sheer brutality has the residents of the Big Apple in panic mode.

Who is this twisted psycho who’s abducted a housewife in broad daylight only to dispose of her lifeless body alongside a lake in Prospect Park, nailed the boneless remains of a nameless drifter to the underside of a boardwalk at Rockaway Beach, allowed the gutted corpse of a single parent to wash ashore under the Brooklyn Bridge, and has had the audacity to leave the desecrated body of the Magnolia Tea heiress rotting atop trash at one of the city’s sanitation dumps?

NYPD’s top cop, Homicide Commander Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has never witnessed such savagery. Hammered daily by the District Attorney, the Mayor and the Police Commissioner, the Lieutenant, who’s battling his own inner demons, must use every resource available to put an end to the killings. In a race against time, Driscoll, aided by Sergeant Margaret Aligante and Detective Cedric Thomlinson, sets out on a rollercoaster of an investigation to first identify the villainous fiend, and then put an end to his butchering.

About this title

About the Author

As an author my debut novel, BONE THIEF and its sequel, THE SCREAMING ROOM, were republished by WildBlue Press in 2020.  Both have also been translated for publication in Germany, Slovakia, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, China, and Italy. I'm a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers associations.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, I attended and graduated from Richmond College which, at the time, was part of the City University of New York. I currently reside with my lovely wife, Eileen, a stone's throw from the Atlantic Ocean in the idyllic beach community of Belle Harbor, Queens.

After graduating from Richmond College I landed a job with Allstate Insurance Company as a sales agent.  When the company opted to take their sales force in another direction I decided it was time to retire and find something else to do with my time.

One day I picked up a copy of Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. This is an often used adage, but I couldn't put it down. The author's attention to detail fascinated me. After that, I was hooked on novels depicting murder, mayhem and suspense. I soon discovered such notables as Thomas Harris, John Sandford, Lawrence Block and Ed McBain, just to name a few. Unlike, Helter Skelter, where the storyline was based on an actual murder, Harris, Sandford, Block, McBain and company created murder and the intrigue that surrounded it. I was enthralled all the more. Read on, I said, and so I did.

After I finished reading my twelfth 87th Precinct novel, I thought: I could do that!  And so, on a gloomy, rain-soaked Friday afternoon, that happened to follow Thanksgiving, I began writing NIGHTKILLS, which would later become BONE THIEF.

Looking back, I'm happy with the course my life had taken me, bringing me to what has become my life's passion:  Writing!

Edition details

• Publisher: WildBlue Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1952225108
• ISBN 13: 9781952225109
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 332