Charlie Boy

by Peter S. Feibleman

Novel is the exciting story of a man who throws the city of New Orleans into a panic as a result of four brutal murders. Josiah Moment-- Boston doctor, comes to New Orleans for an AMA convention. He's alone; his wife's back home, maybe being unfaithful with an old friend. But Dr. Moment isn't bored for long. New Orleans, has had five of its citizens iced by a psychopath who signs his letters to the paper ""Charlie Boy"" Breux; Moment----makes low-life connections that somehow bring him to Charlie Boy, whose wounded during one of his murders. Looking at the poor klutz, Charlie, Moment is positive this can't be the man who has terrorized a whole city--too incompetent for that... Moment's existential outlaw-ism, so long kept under wraps, comes to the he'll help get Charlie Boy out of town. He does--right into a hurricane -when the storm and everything else blow over, Moment is left with the realization that Charlie Boy did do all these awful things ...

Genres: Horror

362 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

1930-

Reviews

[Jeff Dickison · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book that ultimately goes nowhere. A doctor from New England attends a medical convention in New Orleans and meets a serial killer. He thinks the killer is innocent because he witnessed a black man killed by two policeman being blamed on the serial killer. Some good characters get lost in the telling of the story. Could have been much better.