The Pink Sock Killer: A Gripping Halloween Murder Mystery Thriller

Nineteen days until Halloween. Three bodies. One detective who cannot afford to fail.A young pharmacy tech is found dead on his own porch in the rain, a carved pumpkin still burning beside him and a pink sock pulled tight over his face.Detective Marcus Rell has seen bad scenes before. He has never seen one like this. The killer left something behind on that porch, something the rain should have washed away and did not, and Rell is the only man in Hollow Crest County who understands what it means.He is also a man with one paycheck and six people depending on it.A wife. Three children. A father in a care facility. A promotion he has been passed over for twice.Rell knows exactly what solving this case would be worth. Fourteen thousand four hundred dollars a year. He hates himself for knowing the number that precisely. He works the case anyway, eighteen hours a day, while a small town covers its windows and argues about whether to cancel Halloween.Because the killer is not finished. He is counting doors. He has been counting them for six years, and he has a map nobody has found yet.Told in alternating chapters from the detective and from the mind of the killer himself.As the bodies pile up and the town turns on itself, Rell chases a trail built from the strangest evidence of his career: a sawed up porch board, a folded candy wrapper, a worn out work boot, and a nineteen year old cashier who noticed a man who buys bottled water and never drinks it.Halloween is coming. Every porch light in the county will be on. Every face will be covered.And for one night, the man in the pink sock will not be the only one hiding.A dark, twisting small town murder mystery for readers who like their thrillers grounded, their detectives human, and their killers uncomfortably real.Complete standalone novel. No cliffhanger.