How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you’re 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 woman—and 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.
The Reckoning
The Homecoming
Niceville
Sniper’s Moon
Cobraville
Cuba Strait
Black Water Transit
Deadly Force
Iron Bravo
Lizard Skin
Close Pursuit
The Shimmer
Carsten Stroud
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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
you’re 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