Sticks and Bones

An FBI thriller in which a profiler takes on a cult leader whose followers keep vanishing with no blood, no bodies and no evidence. Interrogation games, a suspect who loves to talk and the question of how many killers she is really hunting. He Leads A Cult. She Leads A Task Force. People around Kahin Alshaytan go missing, and everyone asks the same question: where have they gone? He claims his followers come and go as they please, and the local police can't find a shred of evidence. No blood. No signs of a struggle. No bodies. Special Agent Meredeth Connelly builds a profile. Alshaytan offers to cooperate, though she isn't convinced of his altruism. He claims he rules his followers with an iron fist, but his girlfriend smirks behind him. He likes to talk, likes to imply he's responsible for the missing. So who's he protecting? Is she tracking one killer, or two? Paranoid. Delusional. Megalomaniac. Killer? He claims to make sacrifices to the devil. The question is what Connelly will sacrifice to stop him. Sticks and Bones is a Meredeth Connelly Mind Hunt Thriller, a serial-killer FBI procedural, for readers who love cult crime, interrogation duels, profiler heroines and unreliable suspects. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, John Sandford and Karin Slaughter.

E.H. Vick is the pen name for critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning horror author Erik Henry Vick. He specializes in pulse-pounding stories filled with nail-biting tension--usually involving serial killers as villains and psychologically-flawed protagonists. As an author disabled by autoimmune diseases (also known as his Personal Monster(TM)), Vick writes to hang on to the few remaining shreds of his sanity. He lives with his wife, Supergirl; their son; a Rottweiler named after a god of thunder; and two extremely psychotic cats. He fights his Personal Monster(TM) daily with humor, pain medicine, and funny T-shirts. With a B.A. in Psychology, an M.S.C.S., and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Vick has worked as a criminal investigator for a state agency, a college professor, a C.T.O. for an international software company, and a video game developer. He loves talking to his readers, so please email him at berserkerik@ehvick.com--he tries to respond to everyone.