Aries

by Colt Leasure

From the crime novelist who brought you Antique Noir...Reed Cottrell is a private investigator.Pierce Leroy, one of the country’s infamous serial killers, is a sinister individual on the loose, and his taste for carnage is boundless. He has hundreds of names on his list of fatalities. While traveling through the eastern California mountain ranges, he takes four more victims, yet is far from done. Soon, Cottrell begins to obsess over the crimes, and tags this butcher with the name Aries, a reference to Leroy’s astrological sign. Leroy poses an enormous threat to the detective's family and friends after making it clear that he will stop at nothing to turn Cottrell‘s life into one of pure horror.He becomes caught up in Leroy’s game of cat and mouse. Cottrell continues unearthing tips, all the while trying to avoid being controlled by his rival. Further into the case, he unveils a Leroy has infiltrated the detective’s life in immensely personal ways, even finding out that Cottrell is having an affair with a woman named Jean Morse. Cottrell's added drive to find Leroy, and thereby attempt to end the series of murders running rampant through out the Sierra Nevada‘s, will cause him to stop at nothing to prevent the killer from striking again.84,000 words.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2012