The Fifth Victim
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Publisher Description
A brutal serial killer targets a succession of five unsuspecting female victims in this new spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller author, Beverly Barton.
One by one he kills them…
With every kill, his strength increases. But this time is different. This time he has found his perfect fifth victim…
Deep in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar – the gruesome work of a killer who has evaded the authorities across the country. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well – just as he knows the killings won't stop. Not until there are four more bodies…
Genny Madoc's 'sixth sense' has bought many of the town's residents to her isolated log cabin, looking for help. But now it's Genny who needs help from the disturbing visions she sees – images that are getting stronger and more violent each day …
Dallas and Genny must band together, searching the town's darkest hidden secrets, before a twisted killer can complete a sinister plan that will destroy one of them once and for all.
Prepared to be petrified in this dark and gripping thriller, for fans of Karen Rose and P.J. Tracy.
Reviews
"Not for the faint of heart! Shocking and terrifying, it will chill you to the bone." Tess Gerritsen
“A good, tense read.”
Yorkshire Evening Post
‘This gripping crime novel … [is] not for the faint-hearted … you’ll be guessing until the very end.’
Closer Magazine
About the author
This sixth-generation Alabamian from the U.S. is a wife, mother, and grandmother.
An avid reader since childhood, Beverly wrote her first book at the age of nine. Since then, she has gone on to write well over sixty novels and is a New York Times bestselling author.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Unlike Barton's family-centered romantic intrigues (What She Doesn't Know, etc.), this visceral tale fits firmly in the thriller genre, but shades of romance and the paranormal keep it from being just a slasher story. Set in the heart of the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, the novel opens as a killer sacrifices an innocent woman and drinks her blood to gain strength. He performs these deadly rituals in sets of five before moving on to repeat the process elsewhere. When FBI agent Dallas Sloan hears of the first sacrificial murder in Cherokee Pointe, he takes a leave of absence to investigate and hopefully avenge the death of his niece, who was killed by the same murderer. Genny Madoc, a half-Cherokee with physic abilities, foresees Dallas's approach to the town, and she immediately senses that he's her soul mate. What she doesn't know is that her "sixth sense" makes her the madman's fifth target. As Genny and Dallas join forces, Barton turns her narrative lens on the community and its peculiar inhabitants, transforming this thriller into an insightful exploration of a small town. Scenes of explicit sex and violence can be jarring, but the tension and foreboding twisted throughout provide ample incentive for readers to reach the novel's chilling yet far-fetched conclusion.
