Fear Killer

A Cautionary Tale for Men Fear can be a good thing, it can save your life, or it can be used to kill. The fast paced psychological thriller Fear Killer follows Detective Martha Newton who has a shockingly brutal murder to solve. She is dogged in her investigation, but is distracted by her own fear - change -- a new man in her life who seems too perfect. Emily Perrit, timid and married to an abusive husband, has her own fears to work through - no change. Home alone, she manages to kill an attacker. Emily soaks in the attacker's fear as he dies. She has never caused any man to be afraid - She likes it, and wants to see that fear again, and again, and again. Martha befriends Emily after her earlier attack, now she wants Martha to help her, like a mother. For Martha, Emily's growing desire to be close to her "new" mother becomes another problem, along with the love live of her Detective partner and the self-esteem crisis of her real surrogate daughter, whom Emily comes to believe takes much too much of her new mother's time. As more murders occur, all of their lives become intensely intertwined. Is one, or more, of them a murderer? Reluctantly, Martha has to put her fears for all of them aside and follow the evidence until it breaks her heart or kills her.