Aaron Palmer and Ken Hall’s Native Tongues podcast is one of my favorites; not just because they interviewed me on it. They keep the interview light and fast paced with a focus on an artist’s journey as much as the creation itself. I love how fun and entertaining this turned out!
Josh Petroski, author of the Charm City Thrillers series (CHARM CITY KILLER and GHOST CRIMINAL available on Amazon) talks about his 32 years of writing, adventures in the entertainment industry, and the fact that he lived the life of his serial killer; without actually killing anyone, of course… As far as you know. This struggling artist and smiling glutton for punishment has enjoyed the ride!
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]]>Ghosts were only a passing thought on Halloween for Police Sgt. Pete Kendrickson, until an infamous criminal mastermind with that alias bombs his church. The Kendricksons return, as does The Charm City Killer, in this warp speed psychological thriller.
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“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
-Charles Baudelaire – Le Figaro – 1864
–The Usual Suspects – 1995
Chapter One
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 2010
222222In the center of a church, a family of five sang with the melodic drone of organ music. The mother held a sleeping toddler. The father traded glances between the altar and two boisterous elementary aged boys who barely mumbled lyrics.
………..Beneath their pew, a bomb prepared to tear them to shreds.
Somewhere The Ghost smiled.
222222Pete and Kendra Kendrickson danced to David Bowie’s “Suffragette City”. Kendra moved far too aggressively for someone being six months pregnant, her husband thought.
“Easy.” Pete moved closer, slowing their dance. “You’re a ball of energy today.”
“Might as well enjoy it while I have it. I’ll probably want to sleep all day tomorrow.”
The song ended and they both collapsed onto their bed, the new tranquility making Kendra’s eyes heavy almost immediately. Soon she snored calmly, reminding Pete of the quiet hum of an oscillating fan in late spring before those months when the Baltimore heat couldn’t be combated by anything but central air conditioning.
The near silence made Pete’s mind wander. The topic of choice was the same one that had been haunting him for the past several days.
His life constantly had a stabbing source of stress. Not long ago his marriage had been a source- the failed pregnancy attempts, the arguments, the brief separation. As a child the blade was his father. Whether he was over disciplining, or reciting horror stories about his days on the Baltimore streets as a BPD detective, he almost always induced that stress.
Despite his father’s wishes, Pete followed in his footsteps. Along with the scum he dealt with daily came the demotion a few years back. Then there was the stress of tracking down a twisted sociopath the press dubbed the Charm City Killer two years ago. The capture of Ferris Tomlinson and closing of that case was a clear demarcation of Pete’s life, and his stress finally subsided. He regained his position as Sergeant, and more important than anything he regained his love and respect for Kendra. He had lost a bit of that love and respect during their previous marital issues. Then she became pregnant, a joyous miracle that made every problem seem insignificant.
222222Yet that one pain still lingered, and Pete knew it always would, if only in his subconscious most of the time.
222222In his youth, Pete and his best friend Carlos were inseparable. They rode bikes, swam during summers, had sleepovers, and were always together on each other’s birthdays. More than anything they played baseball, Carlos being the far superior athlete. They both had high hopes that he’d make it to the Majors one day.
222222When Pete was twelve Carlos was abducted. Pete witnessed it. He screamed for help and sprinted after the car that took him, but his reaction had been too slow. His screams had been too quiet. Carlos was never seen again. Pete often still smelled the crude oil aroma of those screeching tires.
222222Pete’s destiny was sealed that day. He had to protect.
Thirty years after the event, the pain and guilt seldom surfaced outside the deep realms of his psyche, where dreams and nightmares wrestle for supremacy. It was more of a weight he didn’t know existed that made him walk a little slower after age twelve, a sharpness to his tone and demeanor that had contradicted the softness of his classmates. It was a part of his identity, just as was his average height, auburn hair, and tendency to rebel. Occasionally however, the memory would surface more acutely.
Pete stared at the bedroom wall as if trying to release bolts of lightning from his eyes to knock it down.
“Pete!”
“What?” He snapped out of it.
“I said your name three times. What’s wrong?”
“Noth…”
“And don’t say nothing.” Kendra cut off his dismissal.
“…Just typical work stuff.”
“Glowing” was the prevailing description of a happy pregnant woman. Kendra had it times ten. It was as if her own sun followed her from room to room. Her light eyes were brighter than years prior. Her smile was never-ending, seeming to be anticipating a punch line every moment. She had always been beautiful with eyes larger than most and sharp facial structure that could have landed her on a runway had she not been short. Now with a fuller face and figure, she had never looked more stunning.
“Your lying skills have declined in your old age. What is it?”
He got up and moved the curtains a little to look out the window.
“You’ve been having these moments for a couple weeks now. What’s going on?”
He knew she’d see through a diversion and wouldn’t let it go.
“Carlos. It’s been thirty years as of two weeks ago.”
“Damn,” she sighed, going to him as quickly as her condition would allow. She rubbed his back with a dusting of nails. He began to feel better already. She had that effect on him. Her organic empathy helped make her a great psychiatrist as well as a great wife.
“I know it’s not something you can just let go of at this point. But if part of what you’re feeling is guilt – that you can and should let go of.”
222222Kendra married Pete Kendrickson shortly after college. They used to joke about how her new name Kendra Kendrickson sounded like a porn star. Now after having sex twice already in one morning, she felt like one. Something about being six months pregnant created a ravenous sex drive.
Month four of her pregnancy had been about roller coaster emotions. She cried during a rerun of Seinfeld and laughed uncontrollably at the torturously slow pace with which an elderly man drove in front of them. Month five came the bleeding and complications. After two weeks of sleepless nights for her and Pete, her body had finally settled down and her OBGYN confirmed the baby was fine through it all. They knew he or she was going to be a fighter.
The one consistency throughout was her appetite. With the obligation to eat for two she could now, for the first time in her life, indulge with zero guilt. Her body showed it but, other than the growing belly, not too much. She kept up with exercise, so she’d only lost a little of her tone so far. Pete, on the other hand…
“Damn, I love pregnancy.” Pete left the window and the conversation.
Kendra knew that was all Pete could give on the Carlos topic at that moment. The fact that he gave at all was a huge improvement since their brief separation. She was delighted by the baby steps.
“The sex or the food?”
“What do you mean the food? You’re the only one eating for two.”
She glanced down at his belly which had gone from a little paunch to volleyball-size over the recent months.
“I guess I’ve been eating along with you, haven’t I?”
“It’s ok. It gives me an idea of what I’m going to look like at month nine.”
“I’m here to help… Hey, how about some ice cream?”
“Sounds good.”
Kendra had surrendered long ago to the fact that she would not know the inner workings of Pete as she did her patients. Logic told her that perhaps that mystery was healthy for a marriage, as much as she attempted to diagnose at times. It was this inherent drive to discover and cure one’s mind that was her kryptonite in marriage, but the fuel in her profession.
Like Pete, Kendra knew her career destiny at a young age. She watched her father try to drink away what should have been diagnosed as severe depression, and treated with therapy and medication. The bottle killed him when she was sixteen.
Now, as a well respected member of her profession, the wife of a wonderful man, and future mother to a great child, Kendra was truly happy.
Pete’s thoughts of ice cream ended abruptly.
The sound was piercing, and it made Pete instantly think of 9/11. The ground shook. He steadied himself and saw that Kendra also had to fight to keep balance. He went to her and held her tight, one hand on the child within.
“Jesus Christ!” He intended to murmur, but realized a moment later that he had yelled.
Their home seemed intact but what must have been an explosion was close enough to shake their floorboards.
What the hell just happened?
Chapter Two
“Are you ok, Kendra?”
She said nothing. A blank expression stared back at him.
“Are you ok, sweety?” He repeated.
Her daze carried her to the bed where she sat carefully. Too carefully, Pete thought.
“Um… I…”
“It’s ok. Just relax. Are you ok?”
She exhaled a long breath.
“I’m ok… We’re ok.” She held her belly with both hands. “What happened?”
“I don’t know. An explosion somewhere. Somewhere close. Are you ok?”
Kendra breathed in deep and then exhaled. Then a realization.
“Go. They’ll need your help.”
Pete kissed her head and then sprinted toward the door, holstered his Glock 22, and grabbed his phone.
“If you feel even a little off, call me.”
“I’m fine. Go do what you have to do.”
Pete sprinted out of the house and jumped into his vehicle. His siren aided journey was a quick one. The explosion was less than four blocks from his home.
When he got out of his car, the visual of smoke billowing into the sky became an intimate intrusion replacing oxygen. His breathing became labored. It was like his face was being forced into the campfires he had experienced as a child. The iron grip that held him there was unyielding, merciless. This smell was not just wood and starter newspapers. There was something foreign burning Pete’s nostrils, something sinister.
He ran closer to the epicenter. The smoke amplified as did the smells.
Then time did not exist, all the clocks in all the world stopping instantaneously. Fifteen maybe twenty people were still alive, some with no visible injuries other than bleeding ears, paced frantically with wide eyes and frozen pale faces. Others tried to ascertain quite logically why they suddenly lacked a limb.
222222It reminded Pete of the event in college when he did a whip-it, an inhalation of nitrous oxide from a whipped cream canister. It was an absolute surrender of consciousness accompanied with a hollow tin echo reverberating within his head. The echo was in the eyes of the victims.
Pete felt slight embarrassment as he removed his shirt to use as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding of a woman whose leg had been decimated. People were dying before his eyes, yet his selfish vanity occupied his brain. He dismissed it, and moved with efficiency from one victim to another, performing CPR, holding the hand of a frightened nearly dead teenage girl.
The tinny reverberating echo finally stopped, replaced by sirens. Soon a flood of first responders assisted his efforts. The next hour seemed like an eternity.
Chapter Three
Kendra closed her eyes and tried to breathe normally. She had done so without thought or effort all her life, but now breathing was arduous as if her air had been replaced by an unearthly atmosphere. Her whole body felt off and flu-like. Sweats, aching joints, skin that violently tingled. All she could process was the explosion and uncertainty about Pete’s safety. Had a plane flown into the Baltimore skyline only a few miles away? Was Pete consuming toxins that would give him terminal cancer in two years like the heroes of 9/11? Was it a building explosion to be followed up by suicidal terrorists with automatic weapons doubling the death toll? Unable to dance with the unknown any longer, she turned on the TV.
“…The explosion occurred at 9:25 am twenty minutes ago at St. Michael’s Catholic church in North Baltimore. The detonation occurred during Sunday mass.”
It hadn’t been just a church. It was their church. Pete and his family had a long history at St. Michael’s. It was the church he attended as a child, although now he was only a casual bi-annual parishioner attending Christmas and Easter. Kendra went every week and volunteered as a greeter on a regular basis. She thanked God that in recent months she switched from Sunday morning to Saturday evening mass. She dropped on the couch, closed her eyes, and prayed for the friends that might have been in church this morning.
The TV became incoherent, just white noise. She felt nausea accompanied by sudden abdominal pain. She couldn’t see what was happening, but she could feel it and smell it. It was the aroma of milk just beginning to spoil. She was bleeding.
Kendra held her belly, staggered to her cell, and tapped Pete in her Contacts. After five rings it went to voicemail. She touched End and then quickly dialed 911. Busy signal. Obviously, the line was overwhelmed by citizens reporting the blast and its casualties. She hung up, threw the phone into her purse, and left.
Kendra’s fingers shook, trying to place the key in the ignition. If the car didn’t start she didn’t know what she’d do. The engine sounded. Relief. She paused to slow the world and quell some of the panic. Then she started her journey to Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
222222The one consistency in her world now and an hour ago was the sun. It glistened off ponds near million-dollar homes on North Charles St. with their regal columns and tall lean cypress framing three car garages. Manicured lawns with spiral junipers spoke sonnets to the mourning doves soaring above them. She began to feel a little better.
Amidst the affluent calm came a scream, not a human scream. This was a carnal screech that must have come from some prehistoric winged creature. Then what seemed like minutes later, the scream was joined by a sound she’d experienced before, but only from TV and movies at the climax of a car chase. A sudden crashing of an anvil into water. The fast squeak of metal crumbling.
Kendra’s dizziness intensified as she wondered why her car wasn’t moving and why pebbles of glass were on her pants. Then she went black.
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]]>A tough-as-nails Baltimore senior citizen helps the police try to catch a serial killer after she survives a bullet to the head and develops the ability to read minds.
Chapter One
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 2010
Alice Simrock didn’t know in that surreal moment that she was about to die.
Alice was seventy-one years old but could have passed for early-fifties with almost completely jet-black hair and minimal wrinkles. In that surreal moment she felt as alive as any twenty-one-year-old.
1111111A figure was seated in her neighbors’ back yard carefully and systematically removing pieces of their sliding glass door. The exterior patio light didn’t illuminate the yard to enable her to see all the details of the crime. Obviously, the dark figure had disabled the light. The moon was full but blocked partially by surrounding trees intercepting the would-be secondary light source. Alice’s inner twenty-one-year-old grabbed her shotgun with anger and adrenaline surging.
Piss on death, had been Alice’s credo for a long time. She’d survived Vietnam. She’d survived cancer. She’d outlasted her saintly husband. As she filled the chamber with shells, she wondered for only a moment what Julian would say to her right now.
Slow it down, darlin’. Think before you act.
His advice was always sage but contrary to her essence. She was damn sure not going to let The Ghost take down her best friends. She’d kill every last one of the bastards first.
Alice could have done a lot of things differently that night. She could have called 911. She could have put her shotgun down and alerted the cops in the car out front. Instead, she acted, swift and with certainty.
The criminal had no idea what he was up against, but then again neither did Alice. She was behind him quickly and with ninja stealth. He was unaware of her presence until she racked the gun as loudly as she could. He put his glass cutting tool on the ground and raised his hands without being prompted verbally to do so.
Alice hoped the surprise she invoked in him would cause a major emotional reaction. Instead, the criminal was calm.
“May I stand, please?”
She pondered the query. Was he a man of integrity raised by a mother that taught him those manners? Or had he learned them to manipulate, cold and calculated? She knew it was the latter.
“You may stand. But if you make a move, I’ll cut you down.”
“Fair enough.” He stood with slow-motion movement.
“Good. Now turn around slowly.”
He did so, unmoved, sterile. Alice was impressed both by his calm and by his physical prowess in the way one might be by the strangling ability of a python. Like a python, this man could kill her in seconds if he had his thick hands around her. Of course, her shotgun was the ultimate equalizer. As he turned around, Alice could tell he was hardcore in every way – his tight strong body, his eyes. Everything was unmoving and uncompromising.
His eyes. She’d never seen anything like them. He told her he was going to kill her without words. His face was neutral, but his eyes smiled. Alice had a shotgun pointed at his heart yet somehow, he had the power. Did The Ghost instill an immortality into his soldiers’ psyche? If so, she didn’t care. This was her world now.
Alice smiled. Even though it was 2010, she felt just as strong and sharp as she had at age twenty-seven when she’d joined the Women’s Army Corps during Vietnam. She was one of the few eleven thousand volunteer women that wasn’t a nurse. To this day only family members still alive knew of her military service, and no one ever knew the details of her duties as an intelligence officer.
“That’s a big gun you got there, little lady.” The man in black was somehow able to insert a hint of charm in his words.
“Yep. Makes big holes too.” She matched his charm.
“I’m unarmed.”
“I doubt that.”
“You ever shoot a man before, Shotgun Momma?”
“Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, it sounds like a fun party.”
The man’s eyes continued to smile.
“It’s not a pretty sight. You hit me in the chest and you’re gonna’ see lots of blood. The holes that thing will make in a torso. Hell, you might even be able to see my heart stop pumping.” He paused, studying her. She was just as unmoved as he was. “And a head shot. You’ll see my face explode, baby. Brains will fly out the back of my head and be all over that door behind me.”
“Like I said. Party.”
He studied her more, obviously perplexed by how a tiny woman more than twice his age could exhibit such strength under the circumstances.
“What’s your end game here, Shotgun Momma?”
“One of two things are going to happen. Either you’re going to cooperate and let me march you to those cops out front or you’re going to make a move and I’m gonna’ shoot cha’.”
The man in black smiled, this time with his entire face.
“Neither of those two things are going to happen.”
The sound was like a quick spit of air similar to a BB gun but far more menacing. The sound and the bullet entering Alice’s head happened at the same time. The shotgun fell to the ground carrying her body with it.
A second man in black stood above Alice and slowly lowered the elongated barrel of his silenced Glock.
The piercing swell of the siren didn’t bother the two EMT’s in the back of the ambulance who had heard it bellow hundreds of times in days and months past. Nor did it bother Alice who heard and viewed nothing. She experienced only black and the subconscious dreams and memories amidst it.
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In 2008 Baltimore, nostalgia converges with technology, and a new type of serial killer emerges.
Moe Steadman has become irrelevant and it’s torturing him. Amidst a middle age identity crisis, Moe faces self-loathing triggered by “the beautiful people” and obsolescence as a yellow pages advertising salesperson. He begins to take revenge on his youthful internet competitors after a misguided sexual and self-awakening.
Despite crippling guilt, Moe can’t stop his bloody rampage. As the police close in and he falls deeper into mental breakdown, it’s revealed that reality is not what it seems, just as in the end what Moe thought represented love and true beauty are not what they seem.
Can this troubled, defeated loaner be stopped, or can Moe stop himself and along the way find his peace?
CHARM CITY KILLER is set in 2008, a time when many traditional advertising mediums died at the hands of the internet. The novel pits nostalgia against technology in a brass knuckle fight to the death. Throughout this death match, CHARM CITY KILLER redefines the term plot twist.
The premise of CHARM CITY KILLER was derived from Josh’s seven years selling yellow pages advertising in the 2000’s. (Read more about this conception in the Message From The Author section.)
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Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
I loved the style of writing in this book. It takes place in Baltimore, which contributed to the suspense of the thriller. I would recommend to anyone who enjoys thriller books. I read it in a weekend.
Kat Von Steal
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read sounds too cliche… Do the thing, buy this book
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2021
“There does not seem to be adequate wording for how immensely I enjoyed Charm City Killer. This work has beautifully illustrated characters that grab your attention and draw you in to the story. Petroski elegantly weaves together several characters without missing a beat or muddying the plot.
The climax does not disappoint and leaves you audibly expressing “Excuse me?” and wondering if everything you had read prior to the reveal was something you had concocted in your own mind, or if it came from your own madness… which is appropriate given…. well, I will let you find out.
The only negative I can reveal, is once it’s over and you’ve finished this book… you’ll have the knowledge that many others will no longer meet the expectation this book has set.”
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