February 7, 2025 - fundinmentalfundinmental

MY REVIEW

I love a villain that I can have empathy for, a character that tugs at my heartstrings. Michael Geczi has created a complex character that brought out all kinds of emotions. Will Post is a serial killer. After the murders of three people, he high tails it out of town, leaving Chicago for the Berkshires. And that is where his life takes on a more positive spin. He meets Val. He has a somewhat normal life while he was with her. My heart broke for him, when she passed away. He’s lost and he heads back to Chicago.

When Michael Geczi finally reveals Will’s past, I can’t help but think, what a fabulous, very complex character he has created. The emotional and psychological torture he goes through is debilitating, his psyche looking for ways to survive.

Then She Died by Michael Geczi is the fifth book in the serial killer anthology, but it can standalone. It a fast paced, intense thriller that is unputdownable.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Then She Dies by Michael Geczi.

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FIFTH BOOK IN THE SERIAL KILLER ANTHOLOGY! CAN BE READ AS STANDALONE.

Emotional and psychological episodes are nothing new for Will Post. He’s got a lifetime of experience. More than anyone would want or believe.

But he doesn’t have any experience dealing with his recent killing of three people, and that’s his newest challenge, along with haunting hallucinations and delusions. His hit the road, get out of Chicago, and hide and figure things out in the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts.

For a year, it works out well. He lives as a recluse, stays out of sight, and develops a new routine. Then he meets Val. They fall in love, move in together, and share a near-perfect life for several years … until she gets sick. And then passes away.

The episodes return, and Post inexplicitly decides to return to Chicago. Perhaps he can learn how to forgive himself and even heal. Chicago is no panacea, however. Chicago PD Detective Tanner Osborn is looking into the three killings, now ignored cold cases, determined to learn more.

Post faces other issues, as well, some dating back to his heartbreaking childhood, new ones tied to his return to Chicago, and others signaling a significant and intensifying psychological break. And then there’s the voice in his head providing specific – and often conflicting – instructions.

Then She Died is a fast-moving and deeply penetrating look at the highs and lows surrounding life, love, death … and the always-important truism that actions – conscious and unconscious – have consequences.

Genre: Fiction, Psychological, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller
314 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 7, 2025 by Tierra Buena Publishing
Serial Killer Anthology #5 StandAlone

ABOUT MICHAEL GECZI (from Amazon)

Former Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Associated Press and Dallas Morning News writer and editor; Wall Street executive; best-selling author; communications/crisis consultant and university instructor (University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism). Also author of Futures: The Anti-Inflation Investment. Lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife, Lisa.

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