The Cleaner
Meet Joe. He’s a nice guy out to catch a copycat killer. The one copying himself.
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The Cleaner Paperback ISBN: 9781863256094 Published: 01/01/2008 Imprint: Bantam Australia Extent: 384 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $14.95 RRP
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The Cleaner EBook ISBN: 9781742748610 Published: 01/05/2012 Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult Extent: 381 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $14.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
Surprising and compelling this powerfully written novel is a terrifyingly vivid rendering inside the mind of a serial killer.Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. He remembers to feed his fish twice a day and visit his mother at least once a week, although he occasionally peppers her coffee with rat poison. He is not bothered by the reports of The Christchurch Carver, who, they say, murdered seven women. Joe knows the carver has only killed six women. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to find that copy-cat killer, punish him for the one and then frame him for the other six. It's a perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police. All he has to do now is take care of all the women who keep getting in his way – his domineering mother for one. Then there is Sally, the maintenance worker who sees him as a replacement for her dead brother, and the mysterious Melissa, the only woman to have ever understood him, but whose fantasies of blackmail and torture no longer have any place in Joe's investigation…
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