Carsten Stroud

The Shimmer


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      How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you’re never born?

      A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman—and he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was hunting the same woman in 1957.

      Redding and his partner, Pandora Jansson, chase a seductive serial killer who can ride The Shimmer across decades. The pursuit cuts from modern-day Jacksonville to Mafia-ruled St. Augustine in 1957, then to the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1914. The stakes turn brutal when Jack, whose wife and child died in a crash the previous Christmas Eve, faces a terrible choice: help his grandfather catch the killer, or change time itself and try to save his wife and child.

      The Shimmer is a unique time-shifting thriller that will stay with you long after its utterly unforeseen and yet perfectly diabolical ending.

       Also By Carsten Stroud

      The Reckoning

      The Homecoming

      Niceville

      Sniper’s Moon

      Cobraville

      Cuba Strait

      Black Water Transit

      Deadly Force

      Iron Bravo

      Lizard Skin

      Close Pursuit

      The Shimmer

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       Copyright

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      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

      Copyright © Carsten Stroud 2018

      Carsten Stroud asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © June 2018 ISBN: 9781474082839

      For The Love Of My Life

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       go down to the river and prey

       seventeen days ago

       the lady in the lake

       karen walker reaches a vital conclusion

       selena contemplates the past and the past contemplates selena

       things get antediluvian

       selena consults the crocodile

       the last walker breathing

       nostalgia...from the greek nostos (to return home) and algos (the pain)

       selena finds a curved space in the air

       objects in the mirror are closer than they appear

       selena dreams of home

       the truth about truth

       the death and life and death of mary alice

       you’re not from around here are you

       never send to know for whom the phone rings

       time lockets

       death in the afternoon

       though hell should bar the way

       feral is as feral does

       you know what, tony, I believe you

       event horizon

       september first nineteen fifty-seven

       the beach house

       departures

       author’s note

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