The Devil's Vacation: A Psychological Thriller

by David Wilson

Detective Atkins spent his career solving homicides. Now, due to bureaucracy, he's found himself reassigned and his achievements forgotten. To make matters worse, he's sent on a lowly service call to a closed and abandoned state prison to check on some random homeless person.

But what he discovers isn't what he expected. Atkins encounters someone calling himself the Devil, and the lawman believes that he may be a serial killer who's been murdering children and evading capture for the past three years. Which will he ultimately discover to be true?

Over the course of several nights, Atkins will visit the mystery man in cell 213, attempting to determine who, or what he is.

During this time, several unnerving occurrences will come to haunt Atkins while amusing the man who calls himself the Devil, who just may be causing all of the mayhem himself.

181 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2026

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Reviews

[Paul Preston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was exquisite! Demons, deals with the devil, manipulation; all wonderfully crafted together to make an absolute banger of a story. Put that creepy book into Sasha, the narrator’s, hands and you will not want it to end.
It was surprising how much the author was able to put into such a short story. It felt so much bigger because of the atmosphere and just the personalities of the characters. I will definitely be looking for more stories from David Wilson.