![]() ![]() “A boy of about eight years old was standing behind me with his father. “There was a rather rotund woman in line ahead of me in one of those electric carts,” he explains. “That created a few complex problems, the least of which was where to go from there.”Īs with so many good ideas, it needed that certain moment to make it spring to life, and for Barker, that was in the line at the grocery store back in 2014. “I decided that the killer should die at the beginning of the story,” he says. The question that forms in the reader’s mind is one that Barker asked himself when the intriguing premise first occurred to him. Barker’s THE FOURTH MONKEY, a gripping and pacey read that has the killer, literally, under a bus in the first pages. ![]() ![]() There are plenty of serial killer thrillers out there, but probably not so many where the murderer dies as an opener. ![]()
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