[Stingy Jack]

Well ...... it's not exactly a single death, but it is a good scene from Master of Lies by Graham Masterton. A husband and wife are forced at gunpoint to kneel on their living room floor by an unknown intruder. This intruder has their kids tied to the wall, and he threatens to kill them if the mom and dad don't do what he says. So, mom and dad get on the floor on hands and knees and this intruder nails them both to the floor with railroad spikes: one through each hand, and one through the back of each knee. He then rapes the wife, forcing the husband to watch, and then he burns the kids alive, forcing them both to watch. Then he slits their throats. That was the most disturbing scene I've read.