02058cam a2200313 4500 43656169 TxAuBib 20080818120000.0 160916s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780312384760 alk. paper 0312384769 alk. paper TxAuBib Pyper, Andrew. The killing circle / Andrew Pyper. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. 321 p. ; 22 cm. "First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers"--T.p. verso. A spine-chilling, mind-twisting psychological thriller — Andrew Pyper’s most gripping novel yet — in which a writing circle is haunted by a serial killer. When Patrick Rush, journalist, single father and failed novelist, decides to join a creative writing circle, it seems a fertile time for the imagination. In the city of Toronto, a murderer is striking at random, leaving his victims’ bodies mutilated and dismembered, and taunting the police with cryptic notes. Influenced by the atmosphere of menace and fear, the group begins to read each other their own dark, unsettling tales. One, Angela, tells a mesmerizing story about a child-stealer called the Sandman. Patrick, though, finds fantasy and reality becoming blurred. Is the maniac at large in fact the Sandman? What does Angela really know? And is he himself being stalked by the killer? It is only when his own son is snatched that Patrick understands what he must do: embark on a horrifying journey into the unknown and track down the elusive figure known as the Sandman. Authors Fiction. Adult education students Crimes against Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Missing children Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Horror. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction.