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The Breathtaker - Alice Blanchard

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The Breathtaker is a pretty fast moving, serial-killer murder thriller set in the town of Promise, Oklahoma in the tornado belt of middle America. At the height of tornado season, a family is found mutilated in a house on the edge of the tornado’s path, bodies torn apart by debris. But the deaths look more elaborate than the random impalements of flying debris and someone has extracted a tooth from each of the victims, replacing it with another. Police Chief Charlie Grover investigates further and finds a pattern with similar deaths that were thought to be simple storm deaths. Someone with an incredible skill for predicting the path of a tornado is using the storm as cover for a series of bizarre, gruesome, almost ritualistic killings. The killer appears to be both defying the storm and challenging it by demonstrating his own devastating power. As the killings continue, they become less covered-up, more elaborate, and are starting to look like a personal challenge or message to the Po