{"product_id":"the-butcher-2","title":"The Butcher","description":"In this skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish (Fresh Fiction)  family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller.  In 1985  Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher  ending the serial killers reign of terror over the city of Seattle. But now in his eighties  Edwards action-packed glory days are long behind him. The decorated former Seattle police chief has given up his high-maintenance Victorian home to his grandson Matt for a quiet life at the nearby Sweetbay Village Retirement Residence  where mac-n-cheese Wednesdays have become the highlight of his week.  Though its hard to watch his grandfather get older  Matt is thrilled to inherit the large house he grew up in. Already an accomplished chef with a popular restaurant and a TV show in the works  Matts dream life is finally within reachuntil he discovers a crate buried in the backyard that holds a secret about his grandfather so terrible  it threatens to ruin all their lives if it ever gets out. Especially his girlfriend Sams  whose mother was killed when she was only two years old.  As Matt struggles with his dark family secret  Sams obsession with solving her mothers murder continues to grow. A true crime writer now working on a book about the Butcher  Sam has always suspected her mother was one of his victims  even though she was killed two years after the Butcher was supposedly gunned down.  But when new victims begin to turn up  their murders eerily similar to the Butchers all those years ago  Sam realizes she might be right. The more she digs into the old murders  the more dangerous it getsand the truth is closer to home than she ever could have imagined.  A tense  suspenseful  thoroughly creepy thriller (Booklist)  The Butcher sinks its teeth in you from the very first page.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44886626435125,"sku":"ByrdShop_1476734232","price":91.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1476734232_15817d1a-ed5b-4106-986a-6adae26a92c7.jpg?v=1766918214","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-butcher-2","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}