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Ashworth House is an asylum for the criminally insane. One of the inmates believes that he is Jack the Ripper. Jack also has the ability to time travel -- or so he believes. This power allows him to return to the past and relive the moments of his murders. Jack has a new follower named the Goth. In order for the Goth to prove his worth to Jack, he or she must murder a police officer. A specific officer to be exact - Zinc Chandler, the man responsible for capturing Jack and placing him in the asylum. Zinc Chandler is a member of the Special X, which is the Special External Section of the Royal Mounted Police. This organization is similar to the FBI or other special task force in the United States. Chandler begins to track down a killer who is using a horror convention as his vehicle. This convention will lead him into interesting and dangerous situations, where ultimately his whole concept of trust will be turned on its head. BED OF NAILS is being marketed as a horror novel. This is an accurate depending on one's definition of horror. This book does not contain numerous examples of graphic violence or mutilated bodies. Unfortunately it is not suspenseful either. BED OF NAILS focuses more on the atrocities that human beings will inflect on each other for no logical reason. Nothing presented in BED OF NAILS is a new idea and most of the ideas have been presented in other books in more captivating ways. In this book's defense, the idea of a deranged serial killer having ideas grounded in New Age mysticism and time travel is something somewhat original. One could only wish that the follow through was just as good. Michael Slade is the pen name of Jay Clarke and daughter Rebecca. This is their tenth book.
Reviewed by Sarah Dudley, January 2004
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