The Serial Killer's Wife

Robert Swartwood

Aug 2017 · RMS Press

About this ebook

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

“This is a scary, thrilling, page-turning, race-against-the-clock novel if ever there was one, with a true shocker of an ending. Miss this one at your own peril.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

How far would you go to save your child?

Five years ago Elizabeth Piccioni’s husband was arrested for being a serial killer. Her life suddenly turned upside down, she did what she thought was best for her newborn baby: she took her son and ran away to start a new life. 

Now, living in a quiet part of the Midwest with a new identity, Elizabeth is ready to start over. But one day she receives a phone call from a person calling himself Cain. Cain somehow knows about her past life. He has abducted her son, and if Elizabeth wants to save him she must retrieve her husband’s trophies — the fingers he cut off each of his victims. 

With a deadline of one hundred hours, Elizabeth has no choice but to return to the life she once fled, where she will soon realize that everything she thought she knew is a lie, and what’s more shocking than Cain’s identity is the truth about her husband.

For fans of James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and John Sandford.

*Includes an excerpt from Robert's thriller The Killing Room, winner of the 2024 ITW Thriller Award and the first book in a new series from Blackstone Publishing.

Ratings and reviews

Though, sometimes depressingly dark, this fast-paced book will force you to keep reading. Not until the end is it revealed who are the bad characters, who are the victims, and who are the good people.

Warning: This book contains a lot of profanity! تحذير: هذا الكتاب يحتوي على الكثير من الألفاظ النابية!

what a thrill ride! I could not put it down! there are so many twists and turns that you never become bored or skip a single word. Bravo!!

About the author

Robert Swartwood is the USA Today bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife, No Shelter, Man of Wax, and several other novels. He created the term "hint fiction" and is the editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer. Visit him online at www.robertswartwood.com.