Domin8

By Stephen B King

Dave Barndon is a successful, married, 50-year-old businessman, with three grown up children, who has always loved women. He has everything most men of his age want in life, but for one thing: his wife, Dianne, of twenty-six years has lost all interest in sex, but Dave hasn’t. Through a series of events he is inexorably and slowly drawn into a world of on line chat rooms and internet dating sites for married people who are seeking NSA sex. His hedonistic actions attract a stalking, psychotic, murderer, and creates havoc in his and other people’s lives.

One night, Dave is 'playing' in an on line chat-room, with a married woman named Melanie, when the police arrive at his home. Patsy, a woman he had sex with in a motel four nights previously has been murdered, and he is the prime suspect. His alibi of meeting his brother seems to discount him, and he thinks he ‘dodged a bullet,’ and that his secret life won’t come out. However, the next night, after Dave leaves Melanie’s home, she is also murdered, and Dave’s only alibi then is his wife, Dianne, who works nights as a nurse.

Dave is released by the police and knows he must tell Dianne of his infidelities. When he arrives home he takes a shower to gather his thoughts before he knows he must break his wife’s heart. But, while he is in the bathroom, his wife is murdered, in the same manner as the previous two victims. Subsequently, Dave is arrested for three murders he did not commit.

Wracked with guilt, despised by some as an adulterer, Dave must fight for his freedom, but the murderer is still stalking him, and anyone else he gets close to.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen B King
• Release date: Jul 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370091805

Stephen B King

I was born in the UK, what seems like an epoch ago, and moved to Australia at age 16. I was a long haired rock guitarist and poet/songwriter, before real life got in the way, and I gave it all up for love. I've always felt I had tales to tell and won short story competitions and published poetry in my wilder, younger days. More recently I've written and published five novels. While they have all been Police procedural thrillers, mainly focusing on Serial killers, they all have a love theme running through them. I believe love, and family are everything. Anything else you gain in life is a bonus. I live in Perth, in Western Australia and am fiercely patriotic, and parochial. My wife is amazing in that she not only puts up with living with a writer, but encourages it. I've been blessed with five children, and I adore them all.