Even though the email was forwarded via thirty eight thousand inboxes worldwide, on Tuesday February 13th a package with a local postmark arrived at the Wyoming Police Department. It contained a bedraggled rabbit skin scarf. Wrapped in it was the boiled jawbone of Cody Solomon. Cody Solomon was an itinerant prostitute with dreadlocks and an inverted navel. Police in the vicinity were completely unaware of the email.
The Vacation Killer has now set his sights on Europe.
STOP ME is the fiendishly dark debut novel of Richard Jay Parker and is a uniquely addictive thriller that examines the torment of Leo Sharpe, a Londoner whose wife, Laura, inexplicably vanishes, and a frantic search that begins in the UK and extends to the tenebrous backdrop of post Mardis Gras New Orleans. John R Bookwalter is a man who claims to be the Vacation Killer but has been dismissed by police as a crank because he’s never left the state of Louisiana. How can he exert such control via his website and why would Leo entertain his claims that he has Laura captive?
STOP ME leads the reader to the darkest recesses of its backdrop and its character’s psyche as well as examining the phenomena of Internet celebrity, e-relationships and online obsession.
It was published by Allison and Busby on August 4th 2009 and in paperback on January 11th 2010. It will also be part of Allison and Busby’s much anticipated e-book list in 2010.
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