Slaughtered

by R.P. McCabe

Around 6:00 p.m. the evening of February 16, 1973, Sarah Louise Gammons, was brutally beaten unconscious. The monster, in a blind rage, then savagely stabbed out both her eyes, the weapon ultimately entering her brain, killing her. The gruesome murder took place in the youth building of the town’s Presbyterian Church. Forty-five years after the killing, no one has ever been charged with the crime.Slaughtered, R.P. McCabe’s fourth published work is a hybrid novel inspired by the real events surrounding this “Manson Style” murder. Part I is a fictional “who-done-it” that continues the unique relationship between Charlie Caldwell and Audrey Romero which began in his award winning first novel of this series, “Thick Fog In Pacheco Pass.” The drama will keep you turning pages all the way to its disconcerting conclusion. Part II is a departure in genre for Mr. McCabe. The stunning revelations that immerge from the non-fiction account of more than four years research and re-examination of facts, known and learned, are a testament to the cliché, “You can’t make this stuff up.”Told with the intensity of Truman Capote’s landmark novel, In Cold Blood, McCabe weaves the nightmarish details of this real murder into a tale defining what probably took place that tragic February afternoon, forty-five years ago in the tiny hamlet of Gustine, California where the author grew up. “My mother knew Sarah Gammons.”R.P. McCabe

Kindle Edition

Published December 10, 2018

About the author

"Steve Jobs and I graduated from the same alma mater, though he was in the highest one percent of our class while I've struggled to remain in the middle of the pack!"

After a successful entrepreneurial career, Mr. McCabe turned his attention to writing during the late 1980s. During the 90s he was a featured writer for Enterprise Magazine. In 1998 he graduated from a two-year creative writing program with Long Ridge Writers Group.

R.P. McCabe's debut novel, Betrayed, is a contemporary suspense drama of tragedy and revenge based upon a real Ponzi scheme and its heartbreaking consequences for one couple.