The Handshaker

Will a hypnotised woman submit to rape? Will she kill at the hypnotist’s command? Will she commit suicide at his whim?

Serial killer, The Handshaker, terrorises the small Pennine town of Scarbeck. Choosing his victims apparently at random, he is intelligent, quick witted and adaptable. He has eluded and baffled the police for two years. Then he abducts Patricia Sinclair, girlfriend of millionaire hypnotist, Alex Croft, and the game changes.

Croft becomes the hunter, bringing his analytical mind and hypnotic expertise to bear. Killing follows killing and in a dramatic turn of events, Croft becomes the hunted, on the run from the police, wanted by The Handshaker, drawn into a web of insanity leading to a cliffhanger climax.