Title: Mirror Image
Author: Michele Pariza Wacek
Published: May 27th, 2016
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
Synopsis:
Which would be worse: knowing that your dead sister has come back to life and is now a serial killer, or that someone else is the killer… and that person is you?
Six months after Linda’s sister Elizabeth killed herself, Linda has finally gotten her life back to some semblance of normalcy. Until a killer appears who is stalking men … a killer who resembles Elizabeth … a killer who seems somehow familiar to Linda.
And to make matters worse, Detective Steve Anderson, her old high school crush, is assigned to the case. He’s asking Linda all sorts of questions – questions she couldn’t possibly have an answer to.
There’s no reason for him to be investigating Linda. She couldn’t possibly have anything to do with this.
Could she?
Excerpt from Mirror Image by Michele Pariza Wacek:
Someone
else is dead.
Linda paused, her
hand reaching for The Riverview Times. The words echoed strangely in her head,
bouncing around like some demented ping-pong ball.
Someone else is
dead.
Where had that
come from? What did it mean?
She stretched her
hand forward again to take the paper, but found herself unable to make actual
contact with it. Instead, her hand hung there, motionless. Uneasiness crept
through her body, as thick as black ink oozing across a table.
All right, now she
was being ridiculous. Where on earth was any of this coming from? She shook her
head and snatched up the newspaper.
Tucking it under
her arm, she hurried to her car, refusing to think about why she had such a
curious reluctance to touch it.
She deliberately
turned the radio off in her car, not wanting to hear any news. Instead, she
drummed her fingers on the steering wheel and watched the clouds scuttle across
the dull gray sky. Another beautiful November day in Wisconsin. For the
millionth time, she wondered if it would kill the sun, to show its face a
little more.
Turning into the
parking lot of Bay Mutual Insurance, she thought again of how much she hated
her job. And again, she reminded herself that she didn’t have a whole lot of
options to choose from.
Linda parked and
entered the building, passing the company’s mission statement in the lobby. Bay
Mutual offered auto, home, business, health and life insurance to its
customers. And squat to its employees, Linda added to herself, as she did every
day.
She hung up her
coat and headed to the cramped break room for coffee. Carla was already there,
pouring herself a cup.
“So, how was your
date last night?” Linda greeted her, taking a mug out of the drying rack.
Carla rolled her dark
blue eyes, filling Linda’s mug with steaming, black liquid. “Don’t even ask.”
“That good?”
“It started there.
Then, it went downhill.” Carla put down the coffee pot, fluffed her short,
curly brown hair and opened up the refrigerator for cream. “My mistake was
thinking it couldn’t get any worse. Then, I heard the radio this morning.
Another dead single man. It’s already nearly impossible to get a decent date in
this town. Now, some crazy person is killing the few eligible men out there!”
Someone else is dead. It hit her like a
slap in the face, and Linda put her coffee down without drinking it,
instinctively knowing she could never force the liquid past the thick sludge
that now filled her throat.
About the Author:
When Michele was 3 years old, she taught herself to read because she wanted to write stories so badly.
As you can imagine, writing has been a driving passion throughout her life. She became a professional copywriter (which is writing promotional materials for businesses), which led to her founding a copywriting and marketing company that serves clients all over the world.
Along with being a copywriter, she also writes novels (she’s published two psychological thrillers/mystery/suspense novels “The Stolen Twin” and “Mirror Image” so far) plus, she is also the author of the “Love-Based Copy” books, which are a part of the “Love-Based Business” series and cover both business and personal development.
She holds a double major in English and Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently she lives in the mountains of Prescott, Arizona with her husband Paul and her border collie Nick and southern squirrel hunter Cassie and is hard at work on her next novel.
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