The Cutting Edge [Kindle Edition]

Darcia Helle (Author), Bob Helle (Editor)

Book Description

My name is Skye Summers. I’m a hairstylist and I can’t stop fantasizing about killing my clients. Not all of them, of course. I only want to kill the ones who irritate me, which, if I’m being honest, is most of them. My occasional fantasies have turned into chronic daydreams. They’re bloody and vivid, like watching a slice-and-dice movie on IMAX.

I also want to kill my husband’s ex-girlfriend. She’s not a client but she tops my list. Eighteen years ago, she gave birth to his daughter and she has tormented him ever since. I should be troubled by this growing desire to use my surgically sharpened shears for more than a haircut. Instead, I wonder how I can get away with it.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Darcia Helle has a head full of characters insisting their stories be told. Originally from Massachusetts, she now writes in the sunshine of Florida. She lives with her husband, in a home ruled by spoiled animals. You can learn more about Darcia and her books at: http://www.DarciaHelle.com

Product Details

• File Size: 327 KB
• Print Length: 232 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003URRSRS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,205 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars you will love this one, Darcia has done it again! September 16, 2010

By Barbara Ensign

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a must read for anyone who goes to the hairdresser, is a hairdresser or just plain likes serial killers.

For some reason people get in that chair and just start babbling about their personal/professional lives, well Lilly Skye Destiny Summers is about to expose you!

LSD Summers for short, yes, her parents are hippies, is a hairdresser. While she is entertaining us with the escapades of her clientele, there is a serial killer on the lose in her small town and he has fixated on Lilly, and wants her to be his partner.

Scott, Lilly's husband is just about perfect, his only flaw was sleeping with Diane 18 years ago and breeding the spawn of satan.

Darcia and Bob Helle will have you guessing at every turn of the pages as to who the serial killer is. They mix the humor and second guessing who the killer is at every turn. You will be chasing your tail with this book, going back and forth as to who the serial killer is, which is a nice change of pace.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you on the "edge" of your seat! August 17, 2010

By docdrae

Format:Paperback

I have never read a book more amazing and intriguing as The Cutting Edge by Darcia Helle. I found it hard to put this book down. Every chapter kept me wanting more and more to find out the identity of the serial killer. And when you think you know who it is, you are stunned (similar to the way the killer stunned his victims!) to find out you were wrong! This is an amazing book that is filled with mystery, humor, love, and also makes you explore your inner thoughts of that "unruly customer". I urge anyone to read this extraordinary work and after reading I bet you will take a look at yourself and laugh how much you can relate to Skye!
For anyone in the service industry this book is a MUST READ!!!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars DO YOU WANT IT IN THE NECK OR EYEBALL? October 5, 2010

By Timothy James Dean VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

"The Cutting Edge" features Lilly Skye Destiny Summers, a hair stylist. L.S.D. (yes, she's the child of hippies), better know as "Skye," tells her story in the first person. She feels like someone you know. It no doubt helped that the author was once a hair stylist herself. The descriptions of the salon and clients are uncanny.

Skye is a vegetarian - but you would not know it from her Dexter-like daydreams. While she calmly cuts hair, her fevered imagination thrusts scissors through necks and eyeballs.

But then we are presented with the disturbing, truly murderous mind of a serial killer. (Ms. Helle cleverly shifts to the 3rd person for these parts). As it happens, he knows Skye. The confrontation is inevitable. But is our hairdresser all bravado and no clout?

I was reminded of David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" in the stark contrast between Skye's everyday world - and truly sick, unregenerate evil.

Ms. Helle is a talented writer with a sure voice and deft descriptions. I particularly enjoyed her razor wit. Just guessing, but I imagine Darcia exorcised a few of her own demons through writing "The Cutting Edge."

More About the Author

Darcia Helle lives in a fictional world with a husband who is sometimes real. Their house is ruled by spoiled dogs and cats and the occasional dust bunny.

Suspense, random blood splatter and mismatched socks consume Darcia's days. She writes because the characters trespassing through her mind leave her no alternative. Only then are the voices free to haunt someone else's mind.

Join Darcia in her fictional world: http://www.QuietFuryBooks.com
The characters await you.