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Killing Time: Serial Killers Never Retire - They Just Go On Hiatus Paperback – 6 Sept. 2021

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Serial killers never retire. They just go on hiatus. The urge to kill is always there, bubbling below the surface.

Billy and Charlie thought their killing days were behind them. They used to be prolific life-takers, but old age finally caught up with them.

Now they are ending their days in a dismal nursing home in Blackpool, with only their memories to keep them going. Memories of murder and mutilation.

But when Archie turns up at the home, everything changes. Archie is a breath of fresh air and he puts new life into Billy and Charlie - and before long they realise that it’s time to start killing again.

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He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real — Daily Mail

The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist. — Daily Express

A master of the thriller genre. —Irish Times

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6 Sept. 2021
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15.24 x 1.4 x 22.86 cm
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09FBTW354
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (6 Sept. 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8466864120
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.4 x 22.86 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 102,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan “Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

He is one of the country’s most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. In 2011 alone he sold more than 500,000 eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. Born in Manchester, he began writing full time in 1992.

His novel The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan.

His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also written for television shows such as London’s Burning, The Knock and the BBC’s Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com

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karen Campbell

Killing Time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2021

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BRILLIANT JUST BRILLIANT… I’ve been looking forward to this book and it’s so worth the wait. Extremely up to date with Covid. There is so much reality in here . The main characters are superb and so well written I felt I was in the home with them . So much humour too. Then the nasty grizzly plot unfolds. This book pulled me in from the beginning and was relentless till the end. Excellent as usual from this talented author.

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Contentguy

Far from his usual standard

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2021

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Quite a miserable book about rapists living in an old peoples home in COVID times.

I finished it as it was short but probably wouldn't have bothered if it was much longer.
Lots of detail of old people's ablutions and smells. It's a great book to skim read.

Also it needs an edit, without spoiling it, Archie was not in the room when Charlie and Billie were using Google on page 225. The typo spoiled the whole scene and was confusing to the flow of the book at a critical point. There are a couple of other such errors.

I've read all of the Spider Shepherd and Jack Nightingale books and am a fan of much of Mr Leather's other work. But this one just didn't cut it.

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Disturbing content

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2021

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In my opinion there is nothing exciting or engaging about three old rapists and murderers living out their days in an old people's home when they should be rotting in prison. These men kept trophies of the women they murdered hidden in their rooms to remind them of the good old days. Amazon kindly gave my money back after I couldn't bring myself to carry on reading.

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Mr John Brown

Killing Time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2021

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I didn't read the description of the book before buying. I just thought Stephen Leather books were normally good. But when I read a few chapters and found it was about raping and killing young girls, I just deleted it from my kindle. How people could get enjoyment from reading it is beyond me.

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Roy124

If you enjoy Stephen Leather, don't buy this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 December 2021

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I bought it two months ago along with some other books. Started for Christmas and now too late to return it. I am a fifth the way through and don't know where its going. I returned to the reviews and don't think I want to find out
The book? It is starts with slow a slow start In a care home with, what one imagines, a number of inmates with various levels of dementia and an uncaring and sadistic staff. It brought to mind Last of the Summer Wine but not a thread of humour. It lacks any ability to engage the reader from the beginning and at page 57 still shows no sign of doing so.
As I say, if you normally enjoy reading Stephen Leather don't read this one.

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Richard Coleman

What has gone wrong?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2022

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Stephen Leather was originally my ‘Go To’ author, and I certainly couldn’t write as well as he, but his work, in my opinion, has become lazy and formulaic. I stopped reading Spider Shepherd when yet another jihadist plot was uncovered, and to find three serial killers all in the same nursing home is frankly ridiculous. Where has the ingenuity of The Vets gone. The subtlety of his plotting is missing. His last Nightingale book was also poor, and I’m not sure if it’s indicative of a falling standard to see his books are now self- published on Amazon. Sorry but it will be some time until I buy another .

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Clive

OK, but a bit disturbing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2022

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This appeared a strange story at first with Leather detailing a group of retired rapists dwelling over their glory days from their retirement home. There are a few droll moments, but the underlying theme is disturbing such that I can see why several readers abandoned the book early. I read on, with confidence that Leather would deliver a fitting justice in the end. There are also several political references to Covid in care homes which will historically date the story, though I think Leather was determined to make a point.

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Aitch

Not Spider standard, but still a gripping read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2022

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It's not Spider Shepherd, but this, to me, is still an eminently readable book. Mr Leather really hits home with his social commentary on the state of Britain today, whilst giving a rattling good story.
Improbable as some of the storyline is (see some of the negative reviews), I still enjoyed this book for what it is, a piece of well-written fiction from a master story-teller.
Whether the author, with a relatively prodigious output, is suffering content-wise because of the quantity produced, I still think he hits the heights with the majority of his books, and may be suffering in some readers eyes with this one because of his own high standards.
Read it and make your own mind up!

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