The Crying Killer

Eight years ago, Tuesday Hendrickson’s world shattered when her younger sister was murdered by a serial-killer boyfriend, Arsen Bauer, a monster who was shot and killed by police that night. In the aftermath, Tuesday made a life-changing decision. She took in her sister’s newborn daughter, Julia, assumed new identities, and disappeared. Having rebuilt her life as a private investigator, she now dedicates herself to protecting women trapped in dangerous relationships. But when Tuesday rescues a woman outside a bar one evening, she comes face to face with something impossible: a man who looks unmistakably like Arsen Bauer and appears very much alive. Her shock deepens as a new string of murders emerges, each killing bearing the chilling signature that made Bauer infamous. Is history repeating itself, or is something far more sinister at work? As Tuesday races to uncover the truth, she has no idea that she has become a target herself. Manipulated, watched, and slowly cornered, she finds the secrets she has fought so hard to protect beginning to unravel. The truth about that fateful night eight years ago is about to surface, no matter the cost. Lourey takes what could have been a straightforward serial-killer thriller and transforms it into a powerful story of resilience, raw emotion, and the fierce determination to survive against impossible odds. Packed with twists that genuinely surprise, this is the kind of book that demands to be read in a single breathless sitting.—Jeff Ayers