Trapdoor
Ariana Overton

How do you hide from a serial killer who knows where you live, who you are and has the internet to help him track you, get to know you and move into your life?

When Briana Kilmer decides to change her life and write a novel about a serial killer in St. Louis, Missouri, she has no idea the monster really exists. She sends her story to an internet group of writers only to have the real killer read her work and decide she knows too much of the truth.

Trapdoor will launch you into a world where no sane person can survive. Murder, insanity and terror await you below the trapdoor.

pgs. 115
Word Count - 57,900

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Review:

Reviewer: Shirley Truax, Member of RIO,
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Briana Kilmer has been working on a mystery manuscript for months, and is questioning whether it is good enough to continue writing or not. After all, this is her first attempt at a novel; she's a member of the Wannabe-a-Writer Club. She has posted three chapters of her story on the Internet to the other amateur-writer members, hoping to get some constructive feed back.

St. Louis has its share of murders that she generally ignores. But the killing of a 35-year-old woman who was placed in the window of a Target store…for some reason has held Briana's attention enough that she is making this murder the focal point of her story. Since hardly anyone has commented on her work, she is heavy into the doldrums of doubt about her writing skills.

Briana met Hank Devereaux, a retired California State Patrolman, on the Internet, and over the past year has become a good “cyber friend.” He was not only a good friend, but was a valuable and surprising source of information for her book.

This morning there was only one comment on her e-mail about her story. A cryptic note telling her that she knew too much, and that the writer of the note was going to have to come and see her. A bit concerned, Briana goes to her computer-expert son Brian to see if he can track down the sender by his return e-mail address. But this clever killer stays one step ahead of them, and the police. No matter how close Brian gets to him, he slips away, taunting them as he leaves them behind.

Ms. Overton treats us to a cyber ride across the Internet that is so nicely woven into the plot that this reviewer savored the information, and learned a bit in the process. Brian truly knows his business. Ms. Overton is an expert at hiding clues in plain sight. As the story comes to its astounding conclusion, one sees the clever, talented, original plotting by the writer. No set formula here, just an excellent, thriller of a story by a first-rate author.

About the Author:

Ariana Overton is an author who loves to travel and write about many different places, people and things. She crosses genres the way she used to cross state lines in her travels; always in search of the next great story.

She writes murder mysteries (TRAPDOOR, THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS - EPPIE finalist 2001, DRUID, DEERPATA, SCARAB), Time Travel Thriller (TAPESTRY-EPPIE finalist in 2000), Action/Adventure (GLASS HOUSE, A GLASS DARKLY- both EPPIE 2001 finalists & LOOKING GLASS) .

She also writes Children's picture books (A GIFT FOR ROO, GREEN EGGS FOR ROO, ROO & STUMPY, ROO & THE EASTER BILBY and A GECKO IN MY ORANGE JUICE- A series in progress)

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, Ariana became the family gypsy, traveling the United States, meeting new people and finding new places. After adventuring to Australia, she met Max Overton. He taught at James Cook University in Biology, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Geology, but his passion is butterflies, which his personal site at http://www.angelfire.com/in2/butterflynet will show.

Max supplies the original wildlife photos for the Roo books. He also writes Historical novels. His first novel, LION OF SCYTHIA, was published in 2000.

Ariana is a member of the Australian Society of Authors, Australian Writers Association, EPIC, a former Senior Editor and Director of Services for Romance Writers of America/Australian Chapter and a Contributing Editor to Suite 101 with articles she writes about other authors. Her articles have been published in Inscriptions Magazine, Suite 101, Disceptatio, an e-magazine, Bamboo Grove and the Romance Writers of American/Australia Newsletter. She has been a Managing Editor for Sharpwriter and Senior Editor for Clocktower Books.

Ariana is now working on new novels and is a reporter for the Suburban Journals in Illinois, as well as continuing to design covers for herself, her husband and other authors. She also does website design and creation.

Visit her personal author's site at www.angelfire.com/ms/ariana and read excerpts and read reviews of her books.

To see her original cover art, go to http://communities.msn.com/ArianaOverton

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