The Killer: Book 3 of THREE DAYS IN CHICAGOLAND

Name: The Killer: Book 3 of THREE DAYS IN CHICAGOLAND
Rating: 3.461538553237915 (13 reviews)

R.J. Ellory

Apr 2012 · Three Days is Chicagoland Book 3 · Hachette UK

3.5

13 reviews

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The Killer is the final book in award-winning author R.J. Ellory's electrifying ebook trilogy, THREE DAYS IN CHICAGOLAND. The testimonies of the sister, the cop and the killer will at last reveal the dreadful truth behind the brutal murder of a young girl in Chicago in 1956.

Let's face facts here-there's some folks who just shouldn't be allowed to raise up kids.
Harsh, but true.

I'd have to include myself among them, for sure, but I reckon my father would get top billing.

I've been in Chicago for over ten years now. I was raised in Taylorville, Illinois, but I fled here back in '46. Not before I took a childhood of batterings from my old man, and saw my ma suffer vicious beating after vicious beating. Oh yeah, Ray Woodroffe regretted both his marriage and his kids, and he didn't shy away from showing us.

So I came here. Earned some money, got a place of my own. But that kind of cruelty leaves its mark. It's hereditary. And it found its way into my heart, my bones, my blood. I've been living with guilt a good long time now and finally it's time to make amends. I am a killer and tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, not a moment sooner or later, I am going to die in the electric chair.

Includes an exclusive preview of Ellory's gripping novel, A Dark and Broken Heart.

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3.5

13 reviews

A Google user

May 17, 2012

I thought that the twist at the end was ok, nothing more, but ok. The fact that this "chapter" is 50 or so pages and 200 pages of an extract from another book is very poor value in my opinion.

A Google user

May 16, 2012

I cannot download this book, is there any way of getting a refund? Thanks.

A Google user

June 24, 2012

A good read but wish it had a bit more of an ending - it seemed to just end with no explanation as it went in to a long extract from another book

About the author

R.J. Ellory is a critically acclaimed author whose novels include the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize. Ellory's novels have been translated into twenty-six languages, and he has won the USA Excellence Award for Best Mystery, the Strand Magazine Best Thriller 2009, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for A Simple Act of Violence, the St Maur Prize, the Avignon Readers' Prize, the Livre de Poche Award and the Quebec Laureat. He has been shortlisted for a further thirteen awards in numerous countries, including four Daggers from the UK Crime Writers' Association. To find out more visit www.rjellory.com or follow him on X @rjellory

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