Love Kills: Sam Hunt Novellas, #4

By Bob Moats

Sam Hunt and h is friend Detective Royce go on a hunt to find a kiiler of women. His first kill came from a dating site and the woman was found raped and strangled and left next to a dumpster. They contact a dating service and got a list of men who the victim had contacted. The list doesn't turn up a suspect but more women are being murder with the same MO. This is the fourth book in the Sam Hunt series and is a novella, shorter than a novel but longer than a short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Moats
• Release date: Apr 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201295707

Bob Moats

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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Extra special thanks to:

To Amy Morningstar for doing edits. To the Beta reader Al Norris for reading the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

Thank you to all the people who purchased this story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

Chapter 1

Sam sat at his new computer that his friend Detective Roland Royce gave him in exchange for helping to hunt down the person who poisoned candy at Halloween. He scrolled down through his Facebook page looking for his friends who may have been posting their comments. He didn’t see anyone he wanted to chat with, so he closed down the page and went to the Google news timeline to see what was happening in the world and around his county.

The news he saw was depressing so he shut that down also. The clock said it was 10 and time for another hit on his stash of Tequila. He poured himself a half cup of the gold colored liquid and downed it quickly so it wouldn’t burn his throat. It did anyways, but he chased it with a swig from his can of beer. He had already consumed two cans of the brew and this third might be his last for the night. He was feeling proud that he cut back on his drinking.

The alcohol helped to numb his memories of the war in Vietnam that he struggled to forget. The therapist that he was seeing was helping with his PTSD that came with him from the war and he felt the sessions were working the more he sought help.

His dog, Buddy, stood at his feet whimpering which usually meant he wanted food. So Sam stood telling the dog to move as he went into the kitchen to open a new can of dog food for the mutt. Buddy gobbled down the foul smelling wet chopped beef and Sam went to the fridge and got another beer. It was still early and he wasn’t tired. There was nothing going on the computer with the people he knew so he sat on the couch and turned on the TV.

He started watching a repeat of the show Major Crimes and then he heard a knocking at his door. Now, who in the hell would be at his door this late at night, he thought. Buddy was bouncing and growling at the door and Sam pushed him aside.

He went