Missing Pieces

by Graeme Hague

A terrified secretary finds a severed finger in an elevator. A week later, in another building, a hand is found–from a different victim. What will be next? An arm or a leg? Someone’s head? As Detective John Maiden confronts the mounting horror of the crimes he knows more lives are at stake. And not just those of the killer’s next targets. The kidnapping of a young girl has raised the stakes even higher as her captor wants to get his deeds noticed–and the front pages of the newspapers are giving him nasty ideas. This is a chilling story of murder, revenge and vicious abduction.

Author's Note: Please note this is the US version of the original novel (although no content was changed) and the best place to buy this book is now as an ebook at Amazon, Smashwords and soon here on Goodreads.

369 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

I've been writing all kinds of books for many years, published in Australia, the UK, Germany and in the US. I started out writing horror, then crime thrillers and I've also written two historical war/romance novels. Nowadays I'm concentrating on my Lukas Boston series of detective novellas, which feature my sometimes rather black sense of humour which my friends have often told me to use in my books. The Lukas Boston books are proving great fun to create. I'm living with my beautiful wife in the south west of Western Australia along with three Great Danes and two donkeys.

Reviews

[Jen M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible. What a twist.

[Graeme Hague · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author’s Introduction: I was having lunch with my publishers one day (not being a smart-ass here, I normally lived thousands of miles away, so it was a sort of once-a-year thing I did) –the publishers of my four horror novels–and we discussed the concept of me trying to write a crime novel. It was one of those only half-serious suggestions that come from too much red wine and beer, but I went away giving it some thought and as I rode the lift up to my hotel room I wondered, what would someone do if they discovered an amputated finger on the elevator floor? Missing Pieces was born–it’s as simple as that. The book was released in Australia, the United States and more recently Germany where’s it’s been a best seller. I must try and remember what kind of wine and beer I was drinking at lunch that day...