![]() ![]() She had been dragged to her feet and thrown onto the bed like a sack of soiled clothes.īitch! She heard him roar like a lion, hovering over her mama as if her shadow. When her eyes opened, her mama was no longer on the floor. With all of her willpower she closed her eyes tightly her instincts telling her nothing would ever be the same again. In that moment of mental connection, her mama told her to remain still as the night so that she too would not face the fists and battering he had inflicted upon her. But she knew that she would be no match for his brute strength and drunken rage. She wanted to help her mama and save her from him. With her good eye, mother and daughter made eye contact in a moment of sorrow and sheer terror. One eye was swollen shut, protruding like a golf ball. Her mama’s face ballooned, her cheek shattered from the blow. Blood spilled from a corner of her swollen mouth like a red stream. Her mama immediately crumpled to the floor like a rag doll, dazed and moaning. She heard the sound of his fist as it smashed against her mama’s cheek. She could see their shoes, moving around as if dancing to a tender love song. The curls of her raven hair billowed around her head like a halo. Her pink dress was dirty from the pine hardwood floor and her pink shoes were scuffed. She hid under the bed, carefully controlling her breathing. Can he survive? Or will he be forced to take his turn at bat? That includes Barkley, who is targeted by the killer. But is she?Īs the body count rises, no one seems safe. ![]() Nina, who had a brief affair with Barkley, is determined to prove Carole is the killer. Among the list of suspects is Criminal Court Judge Carole Cranston, who presided over the trials of all the victims and has dark secrets she is in no hurry to share.īarkley quickly develops an attraction to the beautiful Carole, and vice versa, even as the case heats up and more signs begin to point toward Carole as the serial killer the press has dubbed The Vigilante Batterer Killer. Two Portland Police Bureau Detectives-Sergeant Ray Barkley and his partner Detective Nina Parker-investigate the killings. Each victim had recently been on trial for domestic violence-related charges, but was set free through plea bargains, technicalities, or acquittal. Male batterers of women are being beaten to death by a bat-wielding female vigilante. ![]()
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