NOTHING SACRED
DOUGLAS WICKARD
A sacred practice…
A rite of passage…
A ritual ceremony
passed down from generation to generation.
One hundred million
of the world’s women are currently affected by this brutal act.
“In her bestselling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret
of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door to the attention of the reading
public…”
In my new controversial
novel NOTHING SACRED, a psychological thriller set against the backdrop of
contemporary Charleston, South Carolina… this vicious act comes home.
Traumatized by the recent separation from his family, and
ricocheting back after the untimely death of his partner, Detective Dan Hammer
of the Charleston Police Department investigates the bizarre case surrounding a
local teenage girl, found half-dead, stumbling along Old Towne Road after dark.
Dr. Sydia Garrison, fifth year surgical resident at The
Medical University of South Carolina performs the emergency surgery that saves
the young girl’s life. The case quickly turns sour when a second victim is
discovered, tied-up in ritualized fashion and not nearly so lucky. The sleepy
town of Charleston is about to be put on the map.
Harry Wright’s plan for an
early retirement from Quantico, Virginia’s FBI Behavioral Science Unit falls on
deaf ears as he undertakes one of his most challenging cases. After a life-long
career of profiling serial killers, Harry is forced to leave his wife’s
bedside, suffering life’s greatest killer; terminal cancer. The one murderer
Harry can’t contain.
In Charleston, a task
force is formed. “The Mutilator,” as dubbed by the press attracts national,
frenzied attention when the dreaded news arrives: another girl is missing.
Together, Hammer and
Wright piece together a scenario of horror, one that appears to be the work of a
psychotic, sadistic killer. What emerges is the result of a deep-rooted psychological scar, buried dormant, cross continents and time, back thirty
years ago to a small village outside Dakar, Africa, where a small girl and her
mother were left abandoned to die.
Is there nothing sacred?
**WARNING**
NOTHING SACRED
contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers.
Parental
discretion is advised.
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