What Waits for You - (LAPD Detective Tully Jarsdel Mysteries) by Joseph Schneider (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The nightmare descends on a Tuesday. A routine welfare check on an older married couple turns into something out of a horror movie when their bodies are discovered mutilated inside their house. After two other couples die, it becomes clear that there's a serial killer stalking Hollywood. Dubbed the "Eastside Creeper," the murderer camps out in crawl spaces of his victims' homes, sometimes for days, before killing them. And then, like smoke, he vanishes. Detective Tully Jarsdel is intrigued by the Eastside Creeper. His methods are grotesque, his path unpredictable. And as the murders become more gruesome and the clues more inscrutable, Jarsdel's background in academia and willingness to look beneath the surface might be the only tools the LAPD has to stop the bloodshed"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A serial killer lurks in people's homes for hours or days before he strikes...</strong></p><p>The nightmare descends on a Tuesday. An elderly couple's home is transformed into a scene straight out of a horror film, their mutilated bodies the only clue left behind by the killer--and they are only the unlucky first in a series of impossible crimes. Soon dubbed the Eastside Creeper, the murderer stalks Hollywood, camping out undetected in his victims' homes until he's ready to strike. After killing, he vanishes like smoke.</p><p>Considered an expert in the grotesque, Detective Tully Jarsdel lands this seemingly unsolvable case. Jarsdel, an academic-turned-cop, is intrigued by the Eastside Creeper. The Creeper's methods are vicious, his path untraceable--nothing about this killer makes sense. But as the murders become more gruesome and the clues more inscrutable, widespread panic sets in. And amid the terror and suspicion, Jarsdel's unconventional investigation may be the only thing left between a killer and a city about to descend into chaos.</p><p><em><strong>What Waits for You</strong></em><strong> is the hardboiled detective story of a terrified community, the only cop in LA who might be able to put a stop to the hysteria, and a murderer with nothing left to lose.</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An abrasive, erudite detective matches wits with an uber-violent serial killer. <p/>When Bill and Joanne Lauterbach's worried daughter is unable to reach them for days, police check out the couple's home. Rookie patrolman Evan Porter and his training supervisor, Sgt. Melissa Banning, find a chaotic, horrific scene. Porter announces cryptically that the house is bleeding before going inside, where he's violently attacked, ending up in the ICU. Banning's not so lucky. This is the fourth bloody incident involving The Eastside Creeper, a killer believed to spend hours hiding inside other people's homes before he violently strikes. Nerves in Los Angeles are already frayed because of a massive earthquake a week earlier, and morale at the Hollywood police station is understandably low. Enter sardonic, overeducated LAPD detective Tully Jarsdel, who banters with his partner, Morales, over the killer's profile. Bureaucratic scrambling comes to the fore as Jarsdel's taken off the case, then invited onto Hollywood Special, the new unit handling it. Tensions rise even higher after the wife of the lieutenant leading the Special becomes a victim. The road to apprehension is full of detours that accommodate Schneider's juicy prose and quirky characters. There's an extended feud with Jarsdel's increasingly irrational father. And Jarsdel, who left a Ph.D. program in English to join the force, describes the opinions of colleague and possible love interest Alisha Varna as obelisks of intellectual rigor.A buoyant, unrestrained Grand Guignol noir, relishing the journey, indifferent to the destination. - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><br><br>LA native Joseph Schneider shows off his roots once again, leading the reader and quirky detective Tully Jarsdel on a richly-detailed, highly-nuanced mystery through the City of Angels. - <strong><em>Joseph Reid, author of the Amazon Charts bestselling Seth Walker series</em></strong><br><br>Schneider's riveting prose, incredibly original protagonist Tully Jarsdel, and brilliant evocation of a L.A. add up to a novel you won't be able to put down. A read that will get under your skin and stay there for a while. I can't wait for the next book! - <strong><em>Luca Veste, author of The Bone Keeper</em></strong><br><br>What Waits For You is irresistible. I read it in a blur, and it stuck to me like a shadow when I was finished. Joseph Schneider should be on everyone's radar. - <strong><em>Jonathan Moore, Edgar Award and Hammett Prize finalist</em></strong><br>
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