“Did you Mirandize him?” Jocelyn asked.
Finch slipped the handcuff key
into the locking mechanism. “What do you think?”
“I ain’t gettin’ locked up,”
Martin said. “I ain’t gettin’ locked up.” Once again, his voice rose in pitch
and volume.
When Finch freed the cuffs from the bedrail and reached for
Martin’s other hand, the man shot upward, stumbling forward. He lashed out with
one arm, knocking Finch backward,
sending him flat on his ass. As he fell, Finch knocked the tray table
over, remnants of the used suture kit flying everywhere. Before her brain
had even completely registered what was going on, Jocelyn’s hand was reaching
for her gun. She was too late. Martin lunged at her and crushed her
against his chest before she could unsnap her holster. He wrapped a meaty
forearm around her throat. She reached up and pulled down on it with both
hands, prepared to struggle until she felt the cool blade of a knife against
the flesh of her throat.
"Hold still," he breathed
into her ear, the smell of alcohol burning her nostrils.
Where the hell had he gotten a knife?
She had time for one word before the
forearm clenched, leaving her only enough room to breathe, nothing more.
"Finch.”
Martin hollered again. She
couldn't hear him because the adrenaline surging through her momentarily
silenced the entire world. He kept squeezing her throat, then releasing
slightly and pressing the blade against her skin. She strained her eyes,
trying to see Finch in her periphery. He was getting up, slowly. His
hand went to his holster, a little too slowly for her taste.
Title: Hold
Still
Author: Lisa
Regan
Genre: Mystery /
Suspense
After
saving her three-year-old daughter from a car-jacking, off-duty police
detective Jocelyn Rush ends up in the ER. The last person she expects to
run into is Anita Grant, former prostitute and an old acquaintance from
Jocelyn’s days on patrol. In spite of her obvious injuries—mutilated
hands and feet—Anita refuses to talk about what happened. Reluctantly, Jocelyn
backs off, and Anita's case goes to Philadelphia’s Special Victims Unit.
Before
long, Jocelyn is pulled into the SVU’s investigation. Anita is finally
ready to talk, but only to Jocelyn. Her story is harrowing, even to a seasoned
veteran like Jocelyn. Working with SVU, Jocelyn’s investigation unearths a
series of similar crimes going back four years. Three men are preying on
local prostitutes, viciously assaulting and mutilating them.
The
police apprehend two of the suspects, but the third eludes capture. As the hunt
for the most sadistic of the three intensifies, and his crimes escalate,
Jocelyn and her colleagues have precious few leads. Then a monster from
Jocelyn’s past resurfaces. She doesn’t want to be reminded of the
terrible secret that destroyed her family nearly twenty years earlier, but the
man offers her a lead that could crack Anita’s case.
To
solve it, Jocelyn must connect her past with her present—before a sadistic
attacker sets his sights on her.
Author Bio
Lisa Regan is a suspense novelist.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Master of Education Degree
from Bloomsburg University. She is a
member of Sisters In Crime. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and
daughter. Her debut novel, Finding Claire Fletcher won Best Heroine
and was runner up in Best Novel in the eFestival of Words Best of the
Independent eBook Awards for 2013.
Links
Author
Website: www.lisaregan.com
Amazon
Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Regan/e/B009YY091I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lisalregan
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