The Psychopath

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Meet Jez. Jez is a husband and father, working as a business lecturer at his local university. He is also a sociopath and a psychopath and is busy murdering and manipulating his way through life and higher education. When Jez discovers that his boss, vice-chancellor Don Chaucer is sexually pestering Jez's married mistress, he plots to kill him, conveniently opening up a new job opportunity at the same time. Wife Maxine is behind Jez all the way, through all his major and minor indiscretions. Plain and unquestioningly loyal she is the perfect serial killer's wife although her parenting skills leave a little to be desired. Although Jez has murdered before it's never been for a woman and he knows that his jealousy has made him careless and his missing watch could place him at the scene. As his lies begin to unravel, Jez becomes increasingly erratic, and we learn that he may not actually be the only psychopath in this clever and twisty crime novel. AUTHOR: Andrew Edwards was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire and he spent most of his youth in the South of England. He subsequently gained undergraduate, masters and doctoral qualifications at Sheffield Hallam University in Yorkshire before commencing his academic career with the University of Reading in 1999. Since then, he has worked as an academic across the UK, New Zealand and Australia and is the author of the best-selling academic text Pacing in Sport & Exercise Science published by Nova Scientific. He had two young adult novellas published in 2014 and The Psychopath is his first adult novel.

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"Darkly comic and viscerally chilling." --Chris Brookmyre

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A.M. Edwards was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire and he spent most of his youth in the South of England. He subsequently gained undergraduate, masters and doctoral qualifications at Sheffield Hallam University in Yorkshire before commencing his academic career with the University of Reading in 1999. Since then, he has worked as an academic across the UK, New Zealand and Australia and is the author of the best-selling academic text Pacing in Sport & Exercise Science published by Nova Scientific. He had two young adult novellas published in 2014 and The Psychopath is his first adult novel.