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She is twenty-nine when the FBI comes for her, but Catherine Themis was only seventeen, grieving and naive and angry, the first time she wiped someone else's blood from her fingers and felt the snake rise in her chest. She wa...
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"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet.
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- 2019 Watty Award winner for Mystery & Thriller! -
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#Summary: By day, Catherine Themis is an unassuming civilian administrator for the Dedwich Police Department, but by night, she is a notorious vigilante known as The Hangman. Struggling with her violent urges and the psychological cost of her actions, Catherine becomes the target of an obsessive serial killer and a relentless FBI agent, and as the hunt for the Hangman intensifies, Catherine must decide which life she wishes to live and what she values more: vengeance or her fading humanity?
A psychological thriller in the vein of MINDHUNTER and HANNIBAL, SERPENT HEART is a deep-dive into the life and history of a conflicted vigilante forced to confront her inner demons and evade a national manhunt. Catherine questions the efficacy of her own convictions as the FBI closes in and a vindictive murderer puts her family, love, and identity in jeopardy. With everything on the line and time running out, who will Catherine Themis become?
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#Rating: This is a mature work.
#Contains: Violence, murder, depictions of blood, assault, death, intimacy, and the usage of strong language. Includes panic attacks, anxiety, PTSD, and dissociative episodes. Bi-sexual romance.
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