The Shimmer
‘Carsten Stroud is a world-class storyteller… He effortlessly combines hard-nosed cops, mafia dons, and supernatural events with convincing ease. The prose is music. He had me reading late into the night.’ STEPHEN KINGHow do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you’re never born?Sergeant Jack Redding is hot on the trail of a time travelling serial killer who rides The Shimmer across the decades. The stakes turn brutal when the chance to alter past events offers Jack a terrible choice.Taking us from modern-day Jacksonville, to 1950s Mafia-ruled St. Augustine, and on to the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1914, The Shimmer is a unique, time-shifting thriller that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.Readers love Carsten Stroud:“Great pacing, intriguing plot twists, evocative prose.”“page-turner with a satisfying and ingenious plot”“a very clever time travel mystery that is fast-paced and engaging”“Exciting, suspenseful, violent at a couple of points, frightening and heartwarming”“a magnificent literary gift”
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How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure youâre never born?
A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running womanâand he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was hunting the same woman in 1957.
Redding and his partner, Pandora Jansson, chase a seductive serial killer who can ride The Shimmer across decades. The pursuit cuts from modern-day Jacksonville to Mafia-ruled St. Augustine in 1957, then to the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1914. The stakes turn brutal when Jack, whose wife and child died in a crash the previous Christmas Eve, faces a terrible choice: help his grandfather catch the killer, or change time itself and try to save his wife and child.
The Shimmer is a unique time-shifting thriller that will stay with you long after its utterly unforeseen and yet perfectly diabolical ending.
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The Shimmer
Carsten Stroud
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018
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Ebook Edition © June 2018 ISBN: 9781474082839
For The Love Of My Life
Contents
karen walker reaches a vital conclusion
selena contemplates the past and the past contemplates selena
nostalgia...from the greek nostos (to return home) and algos (the pain)
selena finds a curved space in the air
objects in the mirror are closer than they appear
the death and life and death of mary alice
youâre not from around here are you
never send to know for whom the phone rings
though hell should bar the way
you know what, tony, I believe you
An afternoon in late August, a Thursday, four hours and sixteen minutes left on Day watch, cruising down the A1A twenty miles south of St. Augustine in an unmarked shark-gray Crown Vic, Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his rookie trainee were watching a black Suburban with heavily tinted windows and Missouri plates. They were watching the black Suburban because it was lurching across two lanes of heavy traffic like a wounded rhino.
Far out over the Atlantic a tsunami of storm clouds was filling the horizon. An onshore gale gritty with beach sand was lashing at the rusted flagpoles over the tired old lime-green and pink stucco motelsâCrystal Shores, Pelican Beach, Emerald Seasâthe gale fluttering their faded awnings. The air smelled of ozone and sea salt and fading magnolias.
Redding looked over at his trainee, a compact sport-model blonde by the name of Julie Karras. Since she was fresh out of the Academy and this was her first day on the job, she was on fire to pull the truck over and carpet bomb the driverâs ass.
âWhat do you think, boss? Can I hit the lights?â
Redding went back to the truck. It had eased up on the lurching. It was now more of a wobble. Maybe the driver had been fumbling around in the glove compartment or checking his iPhone and had finally stopped doing that. Or maybe he was totally cranked out of his mind and had just now noticed a cop car riding his ass. Whatever it was, the guy was slowing down, doing a little less than the 60 per allowed.
âGrounds, Julie?â
He could see her mentally running the Traffic Infractions List through her mind. She was too proud to check the sheet on her clipboard. Although heâd only met her at 0800 hours, when Day watch started, Redding liked her. She had...
