Bøger af Chris Wendel

Every choice is a compromise. And every compromise changes who you are. For the better. Or for the worse. And some choices can turn your heat black.After body parts wash ashore in Florida, Det. Becker Gray finds himself interviewing a killer who holds information that stretches far beyond this investigation. And he'll share it with Gray ... for a price: a promise. A choice, a compromise, a change that may turn his heart black.After body parts wash ashore in a tranquil Florida beach town, investigators quickly identify the killer, Kenneth Lamont Duncan. However, Duncan won't talk to anyone but Detective Becker Gray. Duncan's demand seems bizarre. It's been seven years since the two men spoke or were even in the same room together. And Gray hardly remembers the specifics of that encounter. In the fourth installment of the Becker Gray series, the detective's interview with Duncan winds through the killer's seemingly tenuous grip on reality. Truth morphs into lies. Clarity fogs. And the men's differences become their commonality. All part of Duncan's plan: manipulation of the information, the promise Gray pledges, and even the bloody ending.

Every day for Becker Gray is a struggle to keep himself from collapse, and the best way he's discovered to do that is to hide from his past, his guilt, and his pain. He's been known to over think, over drink, and under sleep. His job as a detective in the major crimes division affords him the luxury of keeping his mind off his tragic personal life, being too busy to drink, and making good use of the time he's not sleeping. And this kidnapping case is another great opportunity to avoid his life. That is, until he identifies too much with the victim. Valerie Hardy was terrorized as a child. As a result, her protective parents forced her into an existence of isolation and detachment -- just as Gray had framed his own life. When the man returns after ten years to terrorize Valerie again by abducting her, Gray must figure out what's happened before the kidnapper fulfills his promise to kill her. Yet, in the process, Gray collapses, losing control of himself and, briefly, even reality. Worse, during his lapse of self control, the sadistic kidnapper turns his wicked attention to Gray.

As a serial rapist who controls his victims using their social media presence strikes again, Det. Becker Gray must convince a victim who never reported the crime to come forward and help with the investigation. If she faces her past and agrees to help, the world she's built could crumble and her secret will be revealed. Never one to attack an investigation from only a single angle, Gray bends the rules to kick off a cold case investigation that ultimately leads to the department's past corruption.

UNFINISHED is a book of poems by author Chris Wendel. But it's not a complete book of poems. Actually, it is. It's just not a book of finished poems. They're all incomplete, and he wants to write with you. Chris has poems in UNFINISHED that are two lines long and some that are 20 lines long. All of them are incomplete. Write with Chris by completing the poems in a journal-prompt-like fashion. Some of the poems talk of mythological creatures, good vs. evil, and Satan, while others talk of life advice, love, heartache, and self-examination. Chris has poured many personal thoughts into these poems. The Introduction to the book explains: Throughout the course of the last year, a very trying time for me personally, I wrote many two to 10 lines of a text in poem/lyric style, and I never went back to complete them. I knew at the time these lines of text were simply my way of dealing with the many emotions I had during a life-changing year. However, when my life and world had settled, I began wondering how I would complete these poems/lyrics. How would I reconnect with that moment when they were first written down? Did I want to reconnect with that moment? I realized these poems could have a thousand different endings, just like life. With that realization I figured out what I wanted to do with these poems. I am submitting the contents of this book to you. Close the poems/lyrics however you see fit. The pages herein are designed for you to write in the book. If you play an instrument, set the poems/lyrics to music. Give these texts titles. Give them life-a life I could never dream to give them. All I ask is you take a picture of the final product you create and email it to me or upload it to my Facebook or Twitter feeds. If you create a song with them, video it or record it. Email me, add it to my feeds as well. Just give us both writing credit. Let's create something together. Whatever you do with it, just get it to me. I'd like to share them with the world. Together we can write any ending we want.

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