Do you know the old saying that sometimes it seems that
time stands still? For Zack Wilson, attorney at law, that
adage just doesn't hold water. Zack has split-seconds to
make decisions that not only will determine his life
expectancy, but also the lives of everyone in the court
room. During those horrible seconds, and there are only 45
of them, Zack must evaluate the situation, determine a plan
of action and then implement it. He must do this with the
goal of protecting everyone, but most importantly, with a
father's survival impulse of protecting his son. Just what
Zack does and how the story plays out is the main premise
of Ed Gaffney's DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER, his third
nail-biting suspense novel featuring defense attorneys Zack
Wilson and Terry Tallach.
As we meet Zack and Terry again, they've been asked to re-
examine the Springfield Shooter case after convicted
murderer Alan Lombardo insists he did not commit the crime.
True champions for the underdog, Zack and Terry
begrudgingly begin to work the case, even though all the
evidence implicates Lombardo. The case gets more
complicated when the investigation requires looking into
the past dealings of Alan Lombardo and his mob connections.
First complication, the attorney who defended Lombardo is
none other than now Federal Judge Nehemiah Wilson, Zack's
father.
While Zack and Terry are establishing their case for
Lombardo, a series of gruesome and eerily similar killings
begin. The murders escalate toward a final victim and the
killer begins to taunt the police with clues of who the
next victim will be. Police Detective Vera Demopolous plays
a frustrating game of cat and mouse with the murderer,
who's using word games to lure her into his trap. Will she
figure out the clues in time to reach each victim, or is
the killer simply leading her into a trap culminating in
her own death?
Ed Gaffney does it again and has developed a
complex, compelling and thoroughly engrossing story that
draws you into the mind of the killer. Gaffney continues to
take risks with his storytelling style and jumps back and
forth from present time to the past. He builds the tension
of each storyline throughout the novel so that on the last
few pages, the reader simply can't put the book down.
Readers who enjoy a fast-paced, stress-inducing ride will
really enjoy this novel.
For defense attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach, time
is precious. Not just because they’re paid by the hour. Or
because their careers have taken off after a succession of
high-profile cases. Or because a baffling, shocking serial
murder case is threatening to tear Zack’s family apart. For
these two lawyers, time is precious because they have just
walked into the wrong courtroom at the wrong time, where a
man is shooting a gun into a crowd that includes Zack’s
innocent young son.
But until the last second, there’s hope. While a woman
detective desperately races through the city streets to
stop a sadistic serial killer, while a puzzle of lies,
madness, and brutal manipulation comes together, two men
are out of time — for everything but the truth....
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