Interview with a Serial Killer–Meet Eric Spears
RAGE, book four in the Faces of Evil series, is in bookstores everywhere right now! Be sure to tell all your friends! Get your copy this weekend before they’re all gone!
The Faces of Evil series is very close to my heart. I wanted to write this series for a very long time. Book five, REVENGE, and six, RUTHLESS, will be out this summer. Don’t worry, there will be six more after that! I cannot wait to share those stories with you!
As I developed this series, it was, of course, very important to create compelling main characters like Jess Harris and Dan Burnett. They both captured my heart very quickly. However, equally important to suspense and thriller stories are the villains. What good is a hero without a worthy opponent? That’s when Eric Spears showed up in my office demanding his role.
As Jess Harris will tell you, evil comes in all shapes and sizes. You have sociopaths like Eric Spears who rank at the very highest level of the evil scale—tormenters. His singular motive is pleasure. The only way he can feel it is to torture his victims in the most depraved ways. He feeds on the fear. The murder itself is actually secondary. It’s all about the pain he can inflict before he takes their lives.
Eric Spears, AKA the Player, is forty years old. He grew up in southern California. No siblings or extended family. His parents died when he was in his mid-twenties. He rose to wealth through his software business, SpearNet. By the time he was thirty he owned the world of security software. He is brilliant, handsome and charming. Unfortunately he lacks a sense of moral responsibility or a social conscience. The Player’s contempt for women shows in his work when it comes to his victims. In Jess’s profile of Spears, with his professional challenge conquered and with no wife or kids to distract him, she surmised that he’d found a new hobby to assuage the evil urges pulsing beneath his seemingly normal surface.
I shiver each time I think of just how evil Eric Spears really is and, yet, he has agreed to be here today and take your questions. So, fire away…but remember, this man is pure evil and showing up at your door is not outside the realm of possibility.
Enjoy your weekend! And don’t forget to grab your copy of RAGE!
Deb
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I highly recommend Rage and the earlier books in the series, Obsession, Impulse and Power.
As anyone in this Club knows, one of the reasons that the series works so well is that Deb has managed to combine an action-packed plot with a character driven plot, not an easy feat.
Jess and Dan are the main characters in all of the books. Given their past history, each book allows them to cautiously come to terms with their feelings for each other in a second chance at love while at the same time that they are dealing with murder and mayhem, including a serial killer.
Jess is a kick-ass, independent heroine whose continual determination to do things her own way, even if they are outside Police protocol, drives Dan crazy. He is very protective of her and always has her back which is not easy since he is the Chief of Police.
Another great aspect of the series is that Ms. Webb allows the reader to see the flaws of Jess and Dan as well as those other recurring characters. You feel invested in the characters with respect to their personal and professional lives.