THE SCREAMING ROOM - Softcover

O'Callaghan, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1952225124 ISBN 13: 9781952225123

Publisher: WildBlue Press, 2020

Synopsis

“Chilling psychological suspense that will leave you at the edge of your seat, white-knuckled and still turning pages.”—Alex Kava, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie O’Dell series.

Tourism in New York City is under siege. Visitors to the Big Apple have become targets of vengeful twins hell bent on exacting punishment on total strangers to right the hellacious wrongs perpetrated against them in a hellhole they called home.

Their audacious killing spree leaves men and women of all ages and ethnicities brutally murdered, then scalped; their lifeless forms displayed in macabre fashion at landmarks throughout the metropolis.

NYPD Homicide Commander John W. Driscoll along with his dedicated team of Sergeant Margaret Aligante and Detective Cedric Thomlinson are determined to bring the pair to justice, as is a despicable grieving father, whose idea of justice is at odds with morality itself. By offering a three million dollar bounty, a cent of which he never plans to part with, he’s turned the city that never sleeps into a get-rich-quick circus with an overzealous Mayor acting as ringmaster looking to please Mr. Moneypockets any way he can.

Lieutenant Driscoll, who’s been assigned the case hours after he buried his wife, must put his grief on hold and focus on shutting down the twins’ reign of terror by apprehending them before their denouement is dictated by an unscrupulous and unforgiving interloper.

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: 1952225124
• ISBN 13: 9781952225123
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 332