SLAUGHTERED Review Tour with Giveaway

Slaughtered

by KA Lugo

GENRE:   Thriller

BLURB:

The Texter

Fallen homicide detective, Jack Slaughter, closes the door on the home where his perfect family has been brutally snatched from him. Moving across the city, he works as a private investigator to fund his own investigation into what happened to his family—who killed his little girl, Zoë, and where is his wife, Leah?

Every three month for the last three years, Jack receives a simple text telling him where he can find his missing wife. There’s a body at each location, but none of them are Leah.

Jack hates missing person’s cases, but they’re his bread and butter. He only takes the case to find Carl Boyd's missing wife because the details of her disappearance closely match Leah’s. He hopes by finding Bonnie Boyd, he'll find his own wife.
 

The Butcher

Following the leads in the Bonnie Boyd case, Jack discovers someone has been killing women all over the city for the last three years, a fact Jack’s ex-partner and still best friend, Ray Navarro, has neglected to tell him. The city has a serial killer and officials haven’t been able to find a single lead on the person they’ve dubbed The Butcher.

Could Bonnie Boyd’s disappearance be linked to The Butcher? More important, was Leah one of The Butcher’s victims? Could he have gone so far as to murder a child?

With every clue Jack weaves together, the more his own life unravels.

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EXCERPT:
"You’re still struggling with your guilt, Jack. You know there was nothing you could have done to prevent what happened."

"I should have been there, Nick. I could have been home earlier." Jack’s voice hitched.

From the corner of his eye, he saw Nick calmly gazing at him. Were priests trained to remain composed around people who were on the verge of insanity? He was on that knife blade. Every goddamn day.

"Were you ever home earlier?" For a moment, silence floated between them. "And how much earlier? Five minutes or an hour? Who’s to say this wouldn’t have happened on another night?"

Jack scrubbed a shaking fist across his forehead, trying to stop the building pressure there. "How many times do you think I’ve beat myself up over that?" He shot his gaze back at the priest, unintentional anger in his voice as he spoke. "Had he already tried on other nights? If I had been home earlier that night, would he have tried again on another night? Was he going to keep trying until he could finally get in when I wasn’t there? Or was he really after me, but took his anger out on my family instead?" He stopped short; he was now practically yelling at the priest.

His heart pounded hard in his chest, nearly robbing him of breath. The frustration of being so out of control was almost too much to bear. He gazed deeply into the glass in his hands, as if somehow the whiskey’s amber depths foretold his future. How much more could he take before it became too much?

Not for the first time, he swallowed hard at the thought of eating his gun. He couldn’t—not before he found Leah and administered his own justice on his daughter’s killer.

"Jack." Nick’s too-calm voice seemed to echo in the quiet room. "Don’t let this pull you into the darkness."

Had the priest read his mind? Jack downed the whiskey in one go. "Too late."

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
K.A. Lugo is a native Northern Californian who grew up in Carmel-by-the-Sea, part of a larger community founded by artists and writers, including John Steinbeck, George Sterling, and Jack London. Over the years, she's worked with several Carmel notables, but it was in 1997 she left the employ of Clint Eastwood to live in Ireland for six months. It was during this time she met the man she would marry, and relocated to live in Ireland.

While always writing since a very young age, K.A. earned her keep in Ireland as one of the country's foremost travel consultants who also wrote travel articles about Ireland.

Since 2005, K.A. has published fourteen titles in genres including romantic suspense, erotic romance, cozy mystery, and now thrillers.

Slaughtered is the first in the new highly acclaimed Jack Slaughter Thriller series, set in San Francisco, a city close to K.A.'s heart.

K.A. loves hearing from readers and promises to reply to each message. Please visit her socials to stay up-to-date on this exciting new series.  

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Find K.A. Online:

Website - http://www.jackslaughterthrillers.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/KALugoAuthor

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ka_lugo

Blog - http://jackslaughter.blogspot.com

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/KALugo

BookBub - https://www.bookbub.com/profile/k-a-lugo

Tirgearr Publishing – http://www.tirpub.com/kalugo

Slaughtered is on sale for 99¢

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GIVEAWAY

KA Lugo will be awarding a signed hard cover copy of Slaughtered (worldwide) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

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REVIEW:

SLAUGHTERED by K.A. Lugo kept me turning pages until well into the early hours of the morning. Not till my eyes burned and refused to focus did I pause for a few hours sleep. I found myself sneaking in a chapter (or three) at work in my - dare I say - obsession to finish the end. You don't have to race to enjoy the tortured character of Jack Slaughter as he tries to navigate a serial killer, his personal pathos, and a missing housewife. No, you can probably give this sultry San Francisco suspense a slow read. I probably will on my second run. 

Maybe it was the San Francisco setting, or the private investigator office on the edge of Chinatown, or K.A. Lugo's tense prose, or maybe it was all of it together, that put in the mind of the greats like The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, Seven, and my personal favorite: The Usual Suspects. But no matter the cause, this one's an EXCELLENT read and I'm looking forward to the next book.