See Them Run (Lucy Kendall Thriller Series #2): A Lucy Kendall Mystery Thriller (The Lucy Kendall Series)
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“So I’m headed back to my car.” He sighed again, the restlessness from earlier in the morning now sounding like despair. “I know it’s dumb, but part of me still feels like the abandoned five year old she dumped on her brother-in-law.”
My heart jammed into my throat, half relieved, half broken. I felt for his pain, but he wasn’t equipped to handle this alone, especially if his mother stuck to her usual mode of operation and had a partner. I didn’t know what to say to make the empty ache in his heart go away, and I wasn’t sure if that was even possible. Some wounds don’t heal. They just keep festering, and a person had to put up with the scab.
But why had his phone gone straight to voicemail when I’d called back? If he were driving back, he would have had the phone connected to the Bluetooth in the car. He’d have known it was me calling.
Maybe it died.
Maybe he’d caught his mother and had done something terrible and didn’t want to talk.
“Lucy, I wish you’d answered the phone.” Chris’s snappy tone listed toward impatience. “I know that’s shitty, but I really do. Anyway, I’m going to call the police. That’s what I should have done in the first place.”
I prayed that’s exactly what he’d done, but the pit forming inside me said otherwise. Had he brought any kind of weapon, thinking he’d have the courage to attack her? Or was he defenseless? Why didn’t he answer his phone?
“Hang on,” Chris’s recorded voice said. “I see…oh shit. Someone’s coming. I can’t tell if it’s a man or a woman, but they’re in a hurry.”
I pressed the phone to my ear as if that would somehow give me a vision of what had happened over two hours ago.
Shuffling, quick breaths, and a faraway shout.
Followed by an ear splitting gunshot.
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Hear No Lies
All Good Deeds
See Them Run
Gone To Die
All Fall Down
The mind of a serial killer (even one who refuses to categorize herself as such) is a dark one, filled with dangers and trauma they don’t even let themselves consider. Lucy Kendall’s is no different.
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Books by Stacy
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The Lucy Kendall Series
She’s no killer. She’s just taking out the trash.
Hear No Lies
All Good Deeds
See Them Run
Gone To Die
All Fall Down
Delta Crossroads
Tin God
Skeleton’s Key
Ashes and Bone
Delta Detectives
Living Victim
Dead Wrong
Night Terror
Last Words
Shots Fired
Standalone
Into the Devil’s Underground
Welcome to Las Vegas
Twisted Minds
Acknowledgments
Creating the acknowledgments is the most rewarding part of the writing process for me. The Lucy Kendall series is a joy to write, but it is an exhaustive endeavor that has challenged my confidence and my heart. Without the help of several experts and a very patient support group, I’d have curled up in a ball with my dogs and given up.
Many thanks to Dr. D.P. Lyle (Howdunit Forensics, A Guide for Writers) for his patience and willingness to volley murder scenarios back and forth. His suggestion of the ketamine resulted in a scene I loved writing and sent Lucy down a fresh path.
Thanks to William Simon for his expertise in computer programming and police procedure, and thank you to Heather Cathrall for being my virtual eyes and ears to the city of Philadelphia. Thanks to Chief of Police Scott Silvarii for his assistance in making sure my character’s interrogation and investigation were going in the right direction.
See Them Run takes Lucy into very real and very dark territory. Sex trafficking of minors is happening every day in this country. As a mother, it is a sobering and terrifying reality, and as a writer, it means doing my research. Thanks to Detective Caroline Holliday of the Greensboro, North Carolina Police Department for her frank answers my endless questions about the exploitation of minors. Thank you to Staca Shehan, Director of Case Analysis Division at the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children. Staca’s explanation of how the trafficking rings work and what her organization does for law enforcement gave the book a much-needed extra layer.
To Kristine Kelly, my line editor and dear friend, thanks so much for your constant support of my writing. Thanks to Catie Rhodes for her willingness to listen to ideas and my various complaints.
I’m forever grateful for my developmental editor Annetta Ribken’s tough love and belief in my abilities and in Lucy.
To my readers who have fallen in love with Lucy despite her many faults, thank you! I am so happy you’re on this journey with me.
Finally, to my family, especially my ever-supportive husband: thank you for encouraging me to follow my dreams. It means the world to me.
About the Author
Stacy Green is the author of the Lucy Kendall thriller series and the Delta Crossroads mystery trilogy. ALL GOOD DEEDS (Lucy Kendall #1) won a bronze medal for mystery and thriller at the 2015 IPPY Awards. TIN GOD (Delta Crossroads #1) was runner-up for best mystery/thriller at the 2013 Kindle Book Awards. Stacy has a love of thrillers and crime fiction, and she is always looking for the next dark and twisted novel to enjoy. She started her career in journalism before becoming a stay at home mother and rediscovering her love of writing. She lives in Iowa with her husband and daughter and their three spoiled fur babies.
Stacy is represented by Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo, Helin and Fountain Literary Management for literary and dramatic rights.
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