MACGUFFIN
Posted 3 years agoJohn F. Mollard
Category : Mystery & Suspense
Price: $ 12.99
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Voted #2 for Best Thriller Novel in the 18th Anuual Preditors & Editors Awards (2016 limited release/ARC edition). Officially released 5/27/2020.
An FBI agent teams with LAPD homicide detectives to thwart the Hollywood Spectre, an elusive serial killer who preys on celebrities.
SYNOPSIS:
Hollywood, California, August 2005. The gruesome double murder of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and his fiancee in Benedict Canyon has left LAPD homicide detectives baffled. Were the slayings a copycat of the 1969 Manson murders or were they the work of somebody else altogether, someone elusive?
Assigned to assist in the investigation, Special Agent Haley Murch of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit seems to believe in the latter theory. For the past six years, she has been researching the exploits of a notorious serial killer. Dubbed by the Los Angeles media as "The Hollywood Walk of Fame Killer" or "The Hollywood Spectre," the killer leaves a chilling calling card at each crime scene.
Complicating matters is a struggling grade-Z film actor named Rich MacGuffin. With a little help from his special FX wizard best friend, he poses as the Hollywood Spectre's latest victim, Christian Rivers—the world's most spoiled movie star—in an attempt to break into the major-league Hollywood film scene.
It will take an LAPD's lead homicide detective's obsessive knowledge of Hollywood film history and Murch's masterful profiling ability to thwart this serial killer.
REVIEW #1:
Roy C. Booth and John F. Mollard shove you into the director’s seat with this highly innovative project.
Fast paced and fastidiously worded, these writers prove to know their craft in a literary sense, as well as their roles behind the camera as they utter every detailed description with such forethought and accuracy.
MACGUFFIN will serve to give you strong motive to read it from beginning to end.
Truly Hitchcockian with a modern element to die for; MACGUFFIN offers many uplifting aspects that modern film and literature have been missing, while still keeping to its roots that the authors so clearly hold as an object of high regard.
Booth and Mollard introduce a strong array of provocative, plot driven characters that will sometimes feel oddly familiar, though refreshing and innovative at the same time. Perhaps like an inexplicable—though welcome—case of Déjà vu. You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe and above all else, you’ll want to experience this more than once.
I, for one welcome MACGUFFIN, so be it on my book shelf or my DVD case.
Cheers to Roy C. Booth and John F. Mollard—MACGUFFIN delivers!
--Stephen W. Roberts, The Dark Fiction Spotlight Magazine.
REVIEW #2:
Your novel truly captured my interest and imagination from the very first page. I started reading it, thinking I'd just read a few pages out of curiosity. Next thing I knew, I was yelling at my kids to make their own dinner so I could keep reading. By then, I was about 50 pages in with no intention of stopping until sleep claimed me! I've read it once. Now that I know the story, I'm reading it again. It reads like a movie, the way Stephen King's early work does…
-- Crystal Hubbard, Author, KING MELVIN
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