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Face of the Devil

by William Wells
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"Wells has a brisk, breezy style that… blurs the line between fiction and (fictive) reality.  Prime entertainment.”  
—Booklist

In this fast-paced psychological thriller, someone is brutally murdering female college students on Midwestern campuses.

When a police sketch of the killer shows a remarkable resemblance to Ethan Hamilton, a prominent professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in psychopathic personality disorders, Ethan is at first a suspect.  Initially cleared, he agrees to help the FBI hunt down the killer. The killings continue and Ethan begins having troubling dreams about the crimes, and other signs of severe stress, he quits his work with the FBI but gets drawn back

A shocking development puts Ethan and his family in jeopardy.


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It was 8:00 p.m. on a cold winter night illuminated by a bright full moon as Carl drove the stolen pickup truck along the streets bordering the University of Minnesota campus.

Students were walking in groups of twos and threes. He spotted one girl walking alone. He parked the truck at the curb and began to follow her. She turned onto a path that led through the Arboretum toward a quadrangle where there were dormitory buildings. He knew the area well because he worked on the U's buildings and grounds maintenance crew.

He followed her into the Arboretum. No one else in sight. Stupid girl. Didn't she know what could happen to her, walking alone at night through a secluded area? Some people chose to be victims and so deserved what they got.

He walked quickly up behind her, grabbed her arm, and said, "Don't scream. I have a knife and I'll use it."

"Who are you?" she said. "What are you doing?"

Scared, but also somewhat pissed off, to be grabbed like that, he could tell. Good. He liked them to have some spirit.

He pulled the knife out of it leather sheath on his belt and held it up in front of her face. It was a big one, the kind used to gut a deer, and he could see her anger turn to terror.

"Don't worry,” Carl told her. "I just want to talk to you."

Yeah, right, just a little chat, with this knife to kick off the conversation.

"No!" she said, trying to pull away from his strong grip. "Please leave me alone!"

Please.

Polite to the very end.

Copyright © 2019 William Wells

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William Wells

Born in Detroit, William Wells is a graduate of Hamilton College with a B.A. in English literature. He served aboard a Navy destroyer and as a Navy journalist, and was a radio disc jockey, newspaper staff writer, author of an internationally syndicated comic strip, speechwriter for the Governor of Michigan, marketing agency executive, and custom publishing company owner. His previously published novels include Hope’s Road, Ride Away Home, Detective Fiction and The Dollar-A-Year Detective.

 

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