Barker uses them to eye-watering effect in the novel, something which probably works so well as they terrify him, too. But it’s not going to spoil anyone’s read to say that Detective Sam Porter is no superman, but a diligent, courageous professional, battling terrible events in his own life.Īnd there are rats.
It’s very (VERY) difficult to talk in any detail about the book as spoilers would inevitably arise. The boy said something about the woman, I didn’t hear what exactly, then his father leaned down and said, ‘Speak no evil, son.’ As soon as I heard that, a number of thoughts flooded my head-Who says that? What exactly is happening back at their house? By that night, I had the basis for my killer’s childhood and the story found its way to paper quickly.” “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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