Sharp Force Trauma

by Malachi Stone

Attorney Bosco Hoel suffers from a weird sleep disturbance. His lawyer-wife Brenda is tired of him beating her up in bed every night while he's asleep. She forces him to treatment for his disorder at a clinic where the hotshot doctor in charge experiments on him with a device that records his nightmares on DVD. In his dreams Bosco is brutally murdering women and desecrating their corpses. One's body is immolated, another has a Z carved in her abdomen. Trouble is, these murders in Bosco's subconscious have a nasty way of coming true.


Bosco's beautiful wife suffers devastating injuries in a car crash and loses her right leg. While she's in the hospital the murders continue. Brenda's former husband, law professor Lance Dowd Sr., takes advantage of Brenda's injuries to threaten her with the loss of the mansion she was awarded in their divorce.


Sheriff Skip Hopp and his men are harassing Brenda's adult son Lanny, who had been dating the first murder victim and had just broken up with her the night she was killed. Lanny appears to be the last one to have seen her alive. Lanny hires Bosco as his defense attorney. Bosco manages to back off the sheriff for the time being, but Lanny lets slip one or two intriguing clues that he may in fact be guilty of the crimes.

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First published November 16, 2012