Idle Hands

Evil doesn’t sleep—it waits. And sometimes, it wears the face of someone you trust.

In Idle Hands, A. L. Fraine delivers another dark, compulsively readable entry in the Detective Rob Loxley series. This time, Loxley faces a chilling killer whose victims all seem innocent—until their darkest secrets are unearthed. The message is clear: no one is truly clean.

When a prominent teacher is found dead, brutally mutilated with religious symbols carved into the scene, the case strikes a nerve in the quiet Nottinghamshire community. As the body count rises, Loxley uncovers a pattern—each victim is connected to a decades-old abuse cover-up that was never brought to light.

But this isn’t just revenge—it’s righteous fury taken to terrifying extremes.

The killer sees themselves as a judge, jury, and executioner for sins left unpunished. With each new clue, Loxley is pulled deeper into a psychological maze of guilt, silence, and moral reckoning. The town begins to fracture. Whispers turn into panic. And the line between justice and murder blurs beyond recognition.

With razor-sharp prose and masterful pacing, Idle Hands explores the darkness that festers when truth is buried for too long. A. L. Fraine crafts a story filled with haunting tension, ethical dilemmas, and a detective who must confront his own beliefs to stop a killer who might be doing what others won’t.

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