Over Her Dead Body

Over Her Dead Body

Author: H.J. Garbett Listening Length: 13h 51m
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Ruth Watkins is pretending to be a serial killer… Two years ago, Ruth was an ambitious journalist on the trail of a serial killer with a very specific calling card. Then her best friend became the latest victim, and Ruth’s life fell apart. When police shelve the case, Ruth decides there is only one way to force them ...

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I’d often wondered why the killer chose hearts as his signature.

Perhaps because it’s the one organ we sense the most in our bodies: hammering against our chest when we lock eyes with a soulmate, settling and slowing when we lie beside them in bed, and seeming to split in two when their lover admits they’ve been sneaking late-night meet-ups with a bloke called Bill they met outside a Slug we all know it’s in bad taste, but we all look anyway, we can’t stop ourselves.

Serial killers, intentionally or not, understand our compulsions.