Normal Hours (A Psychopath Horror Thriller): A Twisted Thriller Where Every Murder Happens During Normal Working Hours, and the Office Clock Becomes a
He never works late. He never breaks routine. And he never kills outside business hours.
In the sterile fluorescence of corporate America, a killer moves with perfect punctuality. Marcus Webb arrives at 9 AM, leaves by 5 PM, and maintains the kind of organizational discipline that makes him Employee of the Month material.
He's also responsible for eight murders and counting.
Detective Sarah Chen has spent months building a case against a man whose only pattern is his refusal to deviate from schedule. Office buildings. Lunch hours. Conference rooms where victims are found after what appears to be natural death. But tissue samples reveal a sophisticated paralytic compound, and suddenly eight unrelated deaths across three counties become the work of a serial killer who's weaponized routine itself.
Webb fits every element of the psychological profile: chemistry expertise, obsessive organizational behavior, and employment at a location where one victim worked. He's been placed near multiple crime scenes. His past includes disciplinary action for unauthorized experiments with neurotoxic compounds.
But he's too careful to catch.
Every murder happens during his documented work hours. Every alibi is airtight. Every piece of evidence is circumstantial. And when the investigation forces him onto administrative leave, destroying the workplace structure that defined his killing schedule, Webb doesn't break down.
He adapts.
Now Chen must stop a killer who's learned to operate without patterns, who's refined murder into just another professional task, and who's discovered that the scariest thing about monsters isn't that they hide in darkness; it's that they hide in plain sight, behind employee badges and quarterly reviews and perfectly maintained calendars.
Normal Hours is a psychological thriller that asks: What happens when someone takes the discipline of corporate culture and applies it to serial murder? When the routine isn't camouflage but identity? When a killer refuses to work overtime because murder, like any other job, should only happen during business hours?
Until it doesn't.
"A chilling exploration of how structure can conceal monstrosity and how the most terrifying predators are the ones who never deviate from schedule."
"Prasanth N.M. has crafted a villain who's more frightening for his normalcy than any supernatural monster. Marcus Webb will make you look twice at every organized coworker."
"The cat-and-mouse between Detective Chen and Marcus Webb is psychological warfare at its finest, two intelligent opponents playing a game where the stakes are life, death, and the limits of legal proof."
WARNING: This novel contains graphic descriptions of murder methodology, psychological manipulation, and the existential horror of pursuing someone you know is guilty but can't legally prove it. Not recommended for readers who prefer their monsters obviously monstrous or their endings comfortably resolved.
Some killers work nights. Some work weekends.Marcus Webb maintains work-life balance.
That's what makes him so dangerous.
NORMAL HOURS
A Psychopath Horror Thriller
By Prasanth N.M.
Clock in. Stay vigilant. And whatever you do, don't work late.
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