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Act I of an intriguing three-part mystery-suspense series commences. The curtain rises during a warm late-August afternoon at a remote campground in the mountains of Montana:
JIM HOLBER is in a drunken rage. He's waiting for his wife to arrive for a vicious beating - like he's given her on so many prior occasions. He paces the front room of their vacation cabin. Jealousy spurs his imagination. He envisions her as the object of other men's longing gazes as she leads them on. He’s dead certain in his demented alcoholic mind that she's a promiscuous slut, a terrible mother for their two daughters and doesn't deserve the life he's provided for her in Denver. When she arrives from her shopping trip, he intends to straighten her out – again – and this time he'll give her something to remember.
LYNN HOLBER is a devoted wife and the loving mother of two girls. But she’s made a terrible mistake – she married a violent, profane, c! ruel man who has made her very existence a living Hell. She's afraid to leave and afraid to stay, never knowing when she'll say or do something that triggers Jim’s explosive temper and places her on the receiving end of his brutality.
She endures thirteen years of beatings and emotional abuse, but finally finds the courage to contact the police and a lawyer in order to escape her tormentor. Her repeated calls to the cops at last put Jim into jail with a six-month sentence.
But, from within his cell, Holber vows to destroy this woman who slipped from within his control and did the unthinkable – after divorcing him she took sole custody of their daughters and denied him his parental rights through the orders of the Court. The idea of killing her occupies and dominates his every waking moment.
And he has a second, much darker, obsession – a sexual fixation on his older daughter, AMY, who is only thirteen years old. In jail, ! now, he's urgently looking for another prisoner who will agree! to murd er Lynn and rid him of all the trouble she's brought upon him: cops, restraining orders, and incarceration.
STEVE JAMESON, a tough, street-wise prisoner who befriends Holber while the two are in jail together, agrees to consider killing Lynn, for a price. But after his release from custody, he goes directly to the police and tells Sheriff's Detective J.D. WELCH exactly what Jim has in store for his unsuspecting ex-wife.
With the lives of Lynn and her two daughters at stake, the detective must work quickly. He can't afford to make an error as he tries to stop what seems to be the inevitable outcome of Jim Holber’s obsession. It’s a race against time to gather the evidence and leap a series of legal hurdles that will get Holber into a Court of Law. Can he get it all done in time to save Lynn from the man who is intent on her destruction?
Based on a real criminal case and written by a former cop, A Dark Obsession Times 2 combines all! the elements necessary for an entertaining rainy Sunday afternoon read: Crime, violence, conspiracy, intrigue, treachery, jealousy, a glimpse inside the dark world of jails and prisons, an intense true-to-life police investigation - and it's all capped off by a Courtroom drama.
Product Details
- Published on: 2011-11-14
- Released on: 2011-11-14
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
