The Happy Face Killer

After dedicating right around sixty-five percent of his life to forensics, Bo Austen-Taylor has been given the largest and most terrifying promotion of his life: replacing Jamal Pitman as the LAPD’s Chief of Police. Of course, Jamal Pitman is a man of many trades, and Bo has taken over all of them, including the allied relationship with the mob.

Bo and his family leave for Clinstone, Minnesota after Bo’s first week on the job. Dividing his time in Clinstone between a homicide, everything going on in L.A., and his family, Bo can’t help but have a difficult time adjusting.

His first genuine homicide case in Clinstone in several months is the body of a teenager, stabbed to death outside of a bar. The knife is in the dumpster, covered in the killer’s fingerprints. Although no DNA is left behind, a single calling card is: a happy face sticker.

With his priorities split between three jobs, his family, a mafia, and his newfound control of all the men that used to take orders from Jamal, focusing long enough on just one is a hard task for Bo. But he doesn’t have a choice, no matter how many late nights it takes. As long as the killer can get her hands on a victim, as long as she can keep changing her appearance, there’ s no catching The Happy Face Killer.

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Table of Contents

Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three

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