Three victims. Three days. Three years. Some killers stop. Some disappear. The dangerous ones evolve. Detective Vince Tanaka is ready to leave his NYPD career behind for a fresh start with the FBI and his family in San Diego. But when bodies begin appearing in churches across Manhattan—eyes removed and replaced with silver coins—Vince is pulled back into the cold case that's haunted him for three The Ritualist. With only 48 hours before the killer's pattern suggests he'll vanish again, Vince must unravel the connection between seemingly random victims. But as he digs deeper, an unexpected link to incarcerated serial killer Richard Cartwright emerges, along with buried secrets from a long-forgotten psychiatric facility. As the body count rises, Vince discovers the case is far more complex than anyone suspected. When the investigation takes a shocking personal turn, Vince must race to protect not only the next victim but also those closest to him. In this pulse-pounding debut thriller, Adam Roach crafts a labyrinthine game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems, and the most dangerous threat might be the one Vince doesn't see coming. Some demons can't be exorcised. Some nightmares follow you home.
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Crafting Stories, Shaping Worlds. For me, some of the greatest excitement is writing a new story. It's tough to stay focused on the story at hand because there is always a new idea brewing in the back of my mind! I talk about that and more in my newsletter, which you can join by visiting my website: adamroachbooks.com, I'll even throw in a FREE novel and novella! You can also follow me on social: IG: instagram.com/authoradamroach/ FB: facebook.com/authoradamroach IT ALL STARTED WHEN… My daughter had an imaginary friend when she was about 2 and would always tell us the adventures she went on. I took one of those adventures and wrote her a short picture book. As my brother and his wife had kids, they also starting writing simple abc/123 picture books for their kids. From the time my son was about 8 or 9, he started commenting that he was the only one who didn’t have a book. He would ask when is he going to get one. He was the only one of 5 kids to not have a book written. The problem I had was by this age a simple picture book wouldn’t be enough, so now I had to write an actual book, but what was I going to write? I thought about what he liked and started and stopped his book at least 10-15 times, with different concepts, plots, characters, etc. When he was around 12 I started to think I had a decent idea with a focus on Augmented Reality, but it still wasn’t working. I was coming up on roadblock after roadblock and had decided this wasn’t the way. I needed a new plot and I stalled out for 3-6 months. Then one day he was in my wife and I’s bathroom, brushing his teeth, and he asked me off-hand, “Do you know what Lucid Dreams are?” I said, “I think so.” He responded, “Supposedly they’re dreams where people can actually control their dreams while they are in them. I think it would be so cool to have a Lucid Dream.” With that one comment, I had the framework of the storyline in about 10 minutes and knew I finally had the plot which has become Anders Reality.
