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Lizzy has bad dreams about Spencer killing her, and the Fixer has some bad dreams - as well as some reservations about his current love interest - of his own. Derrick, wanting to beat Fixer to the punch on capturing Spencer, tries to delay Fixer's involvement for another 24 hours - but the Fixer has other plans.

Spencer did what she does best. Kill. And she was nervous, but not from second guessing. She was nervous because this excited her. Murder excited her. Aroused her. Gave her a rush like nothing else in this world. And, after tonight, it was going to make her kind of famous. But could her lover, Ashley, carry the burden of Spencer's fame, play second fiddle to her new found wealth - and sleep with a murderess? This might be too complicated for Spencer to handle.

Derrick, wanting to take the glory for Spencer's capture, poses as a client to lure Spencer into a motel room, but the plan backfires, and he becomes her prisoner. Meanwhile, acting on a tip from Lizzy's friend, Valentine, Fixer and Lizzy converge on the motel where Spencer is holding Derrick captive and a showdown ensues – with very unexpected results.

The city streets are a carnival, it is burlesque. My senses are accelerated and I can hear the pain and the sin on every street corner. The city moves like an insect. It scurries. Neon beats against the windows like a probe, even in the day. The world around me continues to live and breathe, and as I watch sinners kiss, as I watch them gambol and dance, I am reminded of the fact that somewhere, buried deep within this crazy world, is Spencer - and Ashley, if she was still alive.

The call me the Fixer. I repair things. I’m usually a very easy going guy, believe it or not. But if you mess with me – or anyone I love, God forbid – I can be the nightmare you never want to have. I can haunt you in the midnight and come after you with an upraised scythe like the Grim Reaper. I can reach out and touch you no matter where you hide, whether you are a pedophile priest or a drug dealer or a wife beater or even the President of the United States.

After taking the little blue pill she'd offered him, the room began to blur it first began to spin. One second he was sitting at Spencer's side, and doing all he could to keep his vibrating nerves in check, and then everything began to lose its cohesive form. He tried to pretend like he was all right; the interaction of unknown drugs and alcohol was nothing to him. He knew there had to be a devil in this story, and as the world around him started to spin he knew that said devil had arrived....

Molly was only 18 and already an alcoholic, already knew all about inner demons. But she didn't know just how much she wanted to sober up and be a true survivor until she was locked up in a filthy, backwoods jailhouse in the middle of nowhere, with no sign of being released anytime soon. Based on the true story of one woman's fight to survive in a hellish nightmare from which there seemed to be no escape, The Jailhouse Movie Star will linger in your mind long after the final paragraph.

In Ripper Reborn, author Brian Lee Tucker examines the case from a more personal point of view, as the Yorkshire Ripper himself, Peter Sutcliffe, speaks to a court-appointed criminal psychologist about the aftermath of his heinous crimes - providing a chilling look into the mind of the man who considered himself sort of a "Jack the Ripper, reborn".

Ray Stryker, former military man turned private dick turned street vigilante. He was tough as nails and had a heart of stone until he met Jayne. Former exotic dancer turned painter who wore her heart on her sleeve and was always ready to run.

True crime author Brian Lee Tucker takes a 360-degree turn with Crimes of the Heart, a collection of poetry and prose written between 2001 and 2013. His style is diverse, yet will appeal to all fans of poetry and prose. His range extends from love poems to vampire sonnets to, yes, even a zombie apocalypse, but his material still manages to elicit the desired effect from his listeners regardless.

Doc Holliday and Kate Elder begin their doomed love affair in Tombstone, Arizona. Meanwhile, Wyatt Earp and his wife, Josephine, harbor a dark secret that may affect just how long Doc and Kate stay in Tombstone - or how long they live.

Ray Stryker is a Gulf War veteran, ex-cop turned private investigator, and a recovering alcoholic with a volatile temper and a short fuse. Jayne Morris is a painter and aspiring writer, ritually abused as a child, who harbors some inner demons of her own. Her life is also empty until she meets Ray, and for now, these two damaged people seem to complete each other. Enter Romeo; a suave, charming serial killer - who has his eyes set on Jayne. Can Ray stop him in time from claiming Jayne as his next victim?

I'm usually a very easy-going guy, believe it or not. But if you mess with me - or anyone I love, God forbid - I can be the nightmare you never want to have. I can haunt you in the midnight and come after you with an upraised scythe like the Grim Reaper. I can reach out and touch you no matter where you hide, whether you are a pedophile priest or a drug dealer or a wife beater or even the President of the United States.

Based on real-life events, author Brian Lee Tucker provides us with an in-depth view into what can happen when an online friendship is carried too far and too fast, and results in sudden and bloody violence. Are social media platforms like Facebook and Myspace still being used for a hunting ground for online predators? Statistics - and this story - say yes.

Echoes of a Damaged Mind showcases excerpts from author Brian Lee Tucker's best, and most stomach-churning true crime books to date - his “greatest hits” collection, if you will. Featured in this thrilling collection of “echoes” from the most damaged minds of our time are “The Chili King” William Suff, “The Cannibal kid” Ottis Toole, “The Confession Killer” Henry Lee Lucas, “The Freeway Killer” William Bonin, and many more of the most infamous serial killers in American history.

Brother Blood lives in a place where shadows come out after the sun goes down, and they don't come out to play. There are old folks in his building that draw social security checks that eat dog food and winos mark their territory like dogs, pissing in the stairwells. A scream from that building is routinely dismissed as anxiety. And a majority of the folks that lived there were white. As Brother Blood sat at his window looking down on the streets below, he couldn't help but wonder, is there any justice?

This is the first section of the forthcoming book chronicling serial killer Richard Ramirez' hellish descent into the occult and murder.

Over the last few years, I have done an extensive amount of research into many serial killers. A lot of them have shared common traits, such as childhood abuse, bed-wetting, starting fires, and animal cruelty. Then again, some of them have not shared any common traits at all, yet have committed the same type of heinous crimes. But, one common trait a lot of them have shared is their propensity for making really, really dumb and stupid mistakes that resulted in their capture - when they possessed a relatively high IQ.

I have had a lot of people ask me what my fascination is with serial killers, or murder in general. My answer has always been the same: I have absolutely no fascination with this subject matter at all, only simple curiosity as to how and why all of these killers became what they were. In the '70s, as a teenager, true-crime magazines filled the corner news stands and the supermarket checkout lanes, and what few channels we could receive through our home antenna were always showcasing the latest news on the rampage by killers.