Archives for June 2017

Dwayne Deveraux is a character in Killer in the Holy City, a novel that former Detective Mark Gado and I wrote about a serial killer in Charleston. Charleston is known as the “Holy City” because of its unique religious tolerance from colonial times. Deveraux is a good-looking, polished real estate lawyer. He is also a suspect in a series of murders. Why would he be a suspect in the murders of wealthy women whose bodies were displayed in sexually degrading poses?  Because he hates and defiles the women who put their trust in him. When Deveraux’s girlfriend threatened to leave him, he put drops of acid on the head of her baby girl. He threatened her with what he would do if she left him. He’d ruin her face and the face of her daughter with acid.