**Previously Published as The Breaking Wheel**How do you outrun a killer who shatters all your bones?In the quiet town of Appleton, Wisconsin, Detective John Walters has faced his fair share of heinous crimes, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare that unfolds when the body of a local woman is discovered. Detective Walters is unwavering in his quest for justice, and as he delves deeper into the investigation, he confronts a villain who takes sadistic pleasure in breaking bones.

As more victims are uncovered, he realizes this murderer doesn’t just end lives, he forces his captives into a nightmarish dance of pain and despair, hoping that they will fall in love with him amidst their agony. As the town’s terror deepens, the clock ticks when a local true crime podcaster’s voice fades into silence.

Now Detective Walters must race against time to unravel a twisted mind and rescue the missing podcaster before she becomes another of the killer’s broken girls. In “The Girls That Break” the line between hunter and hunted blurs as Detective Walters faces his most formidable adversary yet, in this relentless battle of wits, willpower and bone-chilling suspense.

Can he outwit the bone-breaker killer before another life shatters?. .