Review: "A Serial Killer Nightmare"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
This is a scary 'quicky' (short story) that definitely will make you wish you are never alone at night.  The authors, favorite Regina Puckett and her daughter, Charity Parkerson, suggest you may want to keep a baseball bat beside your bed ... just in case this story spooks you too much.  However, when I lived where a serial rapist was finding his prey, and I was alone, I sought to have rather than a baseball bat, but a very loyal Pit Bull terrier.  I was always safe and didn't have to feel around for a weapon. But, let's get back to this thriller of a nightmare (which I think is Regina Puckett's best genre).  At the time that Pamela Monroe is watching the evening TV news, it's reported that 15 women have been killed all having their throats cut; the last murder taking place near her residence. She doesn't need to hear this, as she lives alone, has a stressful job, and has to get ready for business meetings in the morning.  As she lays in bed, she hears a loud crash, grabs her baseball bat and in the dark quietly moves from room to room.  Arriving in the shadowy living room, she sees the window is wide open, the curtains waving softly in the breeze.  Could the cleaning lady have left it open?  She then hears a creak in the overhead floor boards. As she stands at the base of the stairs leading above, a hooded man rushes from behind the stairs, crashing into her and knocking her down ... her baseball bat rolling on the floor, useless. No spoilers here, but I must add that this short story contains Erotic scenes.  I found the story terror-filled, magnetic, and haunting.  I'm looking forward to more thrillers from these two authors.  I like staying awake into the wee hours of the morning, while my dogs sleep peacefully around me.