A Predatory Cabal: Worm in the Apple by K.B. Pellegrino


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The Story

Captain Rudy Beauregard’s detectives feel out of their element when five beautiful people are murdered in suburban West Side Massachusetts. The detectives discover the victims were participants in sexual forays; anathema to the broader elite community. As stated by all, “This is not NYC.”

Captain Rudy Beauregard is looking for motives for the five murders. Four of the victims, one man, and three women were considered ‘La crème de la crème’. The fifth murder did not fit the profile for the other murders.  The first four murdered appeared to be victims of their own pushing the sexual envelope for highs; highs he did not like. He wondered why those who had everything such as money, beauty, and prestige positions would seek pain as an aphrodisiac.

Why, just why, did they have to die? He wondered if sex was not the motive. Perhaps he could fall back on greed, power, and envy; his favorite motives for murder. Who is the sociopath/psychopath behind the killings? These were not serial murders. These murders were planned. The killer left little forensic evidence. Solving these murders required a deeper look inside the community and inside some of the detectives, themselves.

What Readers of "A Predatory Cabal" Are Saying

“All aspects of the human condition are present in K.B. Pellegrino’s new mystery novel A Predatory Cabal: Worm in the Apple as the detectives have to deal with political pressures, family matters, etc. while at the same time attempting to discover the truth behind the wave of deaths rippling through their hometowns.”

 Alana Fretes-Burgos - West Springfield and Paraguay

“K.B. Pellegrino has really done it this time!  She has taken us on a trip to the Dark Side while riding the investigating prowess of the Blue Wave.  If it’s a sociopathic thriller you like, join Captain Rudy and MCU detectives as they walk the long, laborious dark side while solving countless murders and you guessed it…SEX.  In the final chapter not only are the West Side police spent but me as a reader as well.  Great thriller.”

Ed Lyons - Providence, RI

What Readers of "A Predatory Cabal" Are Saying

“All aspects of the human condition are present in K.B. Pellegrino’s new mystery novel A Predatory Cabal: Worm in the Apple as the detectives have to deal with political pressures, family matters, etc. while at the same time attempting to discover the truth behind the wave of deaths rippling through their hometowns.”

 Alana Fretes-Burgos - West Springfield and Paraguay

“K.B. Pellegrino has really done it this time!  She has taken us on a trip to the Dark Side while riding the investigating prowess of the Blue Wave.  If it’s a sociopathic thriller you like, join Captain Rudy and MCU detectives as they walk the long, laborious dark side while solving countless murders and you guessed it…SEX.  In the final chapter not only are the West Side police spent but me as a reader as well.  Great thriller.”

Ed Lyons - Providence, RI

About the Award-Winning Author: K.B. Pellegrino

Kathleen lives with her husband Joe and their dog Othello midst their large family in Springfield, Massachusetts. 

 “My love affair with plots, murder, mystery, spies and, in general, with crime novels began at an early age when I would raid my father’s suitcase after his return from each of his frequent business trips. There lay one, two and sometimes three paperbacks. O’ the temptation to steal them before my older sister got them. And I read and read – probably have read 2,000 crime novels since then. Even at that early age, I developed my own plots if only to cover up my misdeeds to the chagrin of my family and teachers. Some less creative called it fibbing!

Add to that my service as a Springfield Police Commissioner and a ward political party leader, 20 years in an earned professorship at Westfield State University and service as Chairperson of the Department of Economics and Management, my education at Boston University as an engineer and later an MBA from Western New England College, my licenses as a Certified Public Accountant, a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor and Massachusetts Justice of the Peace, my experience in rehabbing historic residential and commercial buildings, my solo practice in taxation, my leadership as Executive Director of the Springfield Parking Authority, and most importantly my love of being a Springfield storyteller; I write now from those experiences.  

I have always written but alas only to the narrow constraints of business and law; certainly often much more long-winded and with far less interesting turns of events. Now I write from the love of plot – of people and their ways – of life – of philosophy – about crime – about the sociopath/psychopath.”

Kathleen is the winner of the 2020 American Fiction Awards in the Mystery/Suspense: Procedurals category for her 3rd novel Mary Lou: Oh, What Did She Do?

A Predatory Cabal: Worm in the Apple by K.B. Pellegrino

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