Sweet Sofia and the Serial Killer (Paperback)

Sweet Sofia and the Serial Killer is an unusual mystery novel written in real time and with the explicit cooperation of the killer, one Joe Parker who was the starring protagonist in two other J. Michael Willard novels. Parker, a master of personalities and disguises, wanders from the Magic Kingdom of Disney's Florida, to Washington, D.C. to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he is fixated on our author's book-selling assistant, Sofia Grachova. Along the way. this being Smiling Joe, he leaves a trail of bodies. Sweet Sofia promises the same brand of twists and turns found in two other Willard books about Joe Parker and a detective named Jack Phar, the initial Killing Friends, and the followup, A Mean Old Man. Sweet Sofia is Willard's seventh novel. He has 10 non-fiction books on marketing and career advice. In none of them does he recommend a career as a serial killer.