The Girl’s Hand
Posted: Tue 21 December, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Memory, Writing 5 Comments »I’ve got a book in my head, and I can’t remember the name, the author, or anything. It’s incredibly annoying, because I want to re-read it, but there’s nothing I can do to trip my memory.
It’s a book about a killer, and starts off with the killer walking out of the woods, holding a girl’s hand.
It’s only at the end of the chapter that you realise the hand is all he has of the girl, as he puts the hand in his pocket.
And that’s it, that’s all I can clearly remember of this book. It would’ve been late eighties, early nineties, and probably by an American author (or at least set in America)
So – any ideas?
Sorry, Lyle, I don’t know it. But now I’ll be singing Tom Lehrer to myself all evening “I hold your hand in mine, dear, I press it to my lips…”
sounds like a Dean Kootz sort of start to a book. Not Stephen King for sure
Gahhh, now it’s stuck in my head!! The letter M leapt into my head, does the surname start with M?
Yes! “Lie to Me” by David Martin!
Thanks, Dude.
In the light of recent events, should I be concerned? 😉