THE DYING HOUR, launches a new suspense series by award-winning author Rick Mofina. THE DYING HOUR, introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single fulltime job being offered through the paper's intense intern program. But unlike the program's other young reporters, who attended big name schools and worked at other big metro dailies, Wade put himself through community college, and lacked the same experience. Wade struggles with his haunting past as he pursues the story of Karen Harding, a college student whose car was found abandoned on a lonely stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest. How could this beloved young woman with the altrustic nature simply vanish? Wade battles mounting odds and cut-throat competition to unearth the truth behind Karen Harding's disturbing case. Her disappearance is a story he cannot give up, never realizing the toll it could exact from him. THE DYING HOUR! , is a bone-chilling, mesmorizing page-turner that introduces readers to an all-too-human young hero who journeys into the darkest regions of the human heart to confront a nightmare. ### Review "The Dying Hour starts scary and ends scary. You'll be craving Mofina's next novel." -- *Sandra Brown, New York Times Bestselling author.* ### About the Author PENTHOUSE magazine has hailed Rick Mofina, a former newspaper crime reporter, as "one of the leading thriller writers of the day." His books have drawn praise from New York Times Bestselling authors, James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Dean Koontz and Sandra Brown. His series featuring San Francisco reporter Tom Reed and SFPD Homicide Inspector Walt Sydowski, feature the titles, If Angels Fall, Cold Fear, No Way Back, Be Mine, and Blood of Others, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Views: 23
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch seeks justice for the forgotten in this original story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades, the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant. Cold cases are often the toughest: With no body, no murder scene, and no fingerprints, Bosch nevertheless gets lucky when DNA evidence from the murder weapon points to a known killer. But the DA insists that science alone is not enough — he needs the case to be bulletproof before he'll take it to court. Determined to speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves, Bosch has one chance to wrench a confession out of a cold-blooded killer, or risk letting him walk free for good. In this gripping, never-before-published story by "master of the crime thriller" (Huffington Post) Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch quenches his thirst for justice and shows why he is "one of the most popular and enduring figures in American crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune) . Views: 23
Getting pregnant as a teenager and being coerced into giving her baby up for adoption left a festering scar on Jaymee Ballard's life. Trapped by poverty and without many allies, Jaymee nearly gives up hope of getting her daughter back after her best friend is murdered. Now, four years later, a wealthy woman with legal connections hires her as a housekeeper, and Jaymee gathers the courage to seek her help. But Jaymee's last chance ends up in a puddle of blood in one of the historic antebellum mansions in Roselea, Mississippi. I just murdered your wife...again. An unsigned letter consisting of six horrifying words turns Nick Samuels stagnant life upside down. Stuck in emotional purgatory since his wife's unsolved murder four years ago, Nick is about to self-destruct. The arrival of the letter claiming credit for his wife's murder and boasting of a new kill sends Nick to Roselea, where he and Jaymee's worlds collide. Jaymee and Nick realize exposing the truth about her daughter's adoption is the only way to solve the murders. Up against years of deception, they rush to identify the killer before the evidence-and Jaymee's daughter-are lost. But the truth doesn't always set the guilt-ridden free. Sometimes, it destroys them. Views: 23
Noir thriller set in France during the European Year Against Racism: 1997. A group of neo-Nazis infiltrate the Catholic Church ranging from lowly priests to Archbishops. While carrying out their religious duties as upright representatives of the Church, they scheme in organising an earth-shattering terrorist attack. At the same time, these infiltrators indulge in transgressive sexual ventures.ReviewMalediction is a horrifying parable of poisoned faith. No one does the darker shade of noir like Sally Spedding. Andrew Taylor, winner of the Crime Writers' Association diamond dagger --Andrew Taylor, Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger About the AuthorSally Spedding has won many awards including the H.E. Bates Short Story Prize and the Anne Tibble Award for Poetry. Sally is the author of six highly acclaimed crime mystery novels.
Noir thriller set in France during the European Year Against Racism: 1997. A group of neo-Nazis infiltrate the Catholic Church ranging from lowly priests to Archbishops. While carrying out their religious duties as upright representatives of the Church, they scheme in organising an earth-shattering terrorist attack. At the same time, these infiltrators indulge in transgressive sexual ventures.**ReviewMalediction is a horrifying parable of poisoned faith. No one does the darker shade of noir like Sally Spedding. Andrew Taylor, winner of the Crime Writers' Association diamond dagger --Andrew Taylor, Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger About the AuthorSally Spedding has won many awards including the H.E. Bates Short Story Prize and the Anne Tibble Award for Poetry. Sally is the author of six highly acclaimed crime mystery novels. Views: 23
It was a clear night in Glacier National Park. Fourteen-year-old Ted
Systead and his father were camping beneath the rugged peaks and starlit
skies when something unimaginable happened: a grizzly bear attacked
Ted’s father and dragged him to his death. Now, twenty years
later, as Special Agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted gets
called back to investigate a crime that mirrors the horror of that
night. Except this time, the victim was tied to a tree before the
mauling. Ted teams up with one of the park officers—a man named Monty,
whose pleasant exterior masks an all-too-vivid knowledge of the
hazardous terrain surrounding them. Residents of the area turn out to be
suspicious of outsiders and less than forthcoming. Their intimate
connection to the wild forces them to confront nature, and their fellow
man, with equal measures of reverence and ruthlessness. As the
case progresses with no clear answers, more than human life is at
stake—including that of the majestic creature responsible for the
attack. Ted’s search for the truth ends up leading him deeper into the
wilderness than he ever imagined, on the trail of a killer, until he
reaches a shocking and unexpected personal conclusion. Views: 23
1961. In the drawing room of an imposing Hong Kong residence, a British lord brutally assaults a young Chinese boy. His grandson watches, helpless. But he will never forget.Wapping, London, present day. It's a warm spring in the capital, and heroin addict Catherine Berlin feels the clammy breath of the past on her neck. Battling to stay clean, and bearing the scars of her most recent case, she is struggling to outpace her demons. An old contact has offered her a job investigating a violent attack by a seventeen-year-old public schoolboy, a Chinese orphan on a prestigious scholarship. The victim has gone missing, and the boy's patron, a shadowy peer, claims the case is being manipulated by the Chinese government. Seduced by the boy's vulnerability and the peer's allegations, Berlin journeys to Hong Kong, where she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from the Pearl River Delta to the Palace of Westminster...House of Bones is the fourth... Views: 23
The murder of one of the computer dating service Compu-Mate's clients sends Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter and retired coroner Dr. Charlie Riggs on the trail of a killer that leads them to a London insane asylum. Reprint. *K. *
### From Publishers Weekly
In contrast to his taut, punchy first novel, To Speak for the Dead , Levine's second is characterized by excess--an outlandish plot, too many characters and too many soggy wisecracks. But the blistering running commentary of hero-lawyer Jake Lassiter on drug dealers, developers and life in murder-a-day Dade County, Fla., plus a horrific denouement, easily makes up for the tale's shortcoming. With his Latin-spouting, bonefishing sidekick, retired coroner Charlie Riggs, the former Miami Dolphins linebacker tracks a serial killer and runs up against political corruption. The killer's first three victims are women who belong to Compu-Mate, an electronic network whose members talk dirty to one another. Jake, dragooned into becoming a special prosecutor, turns for guidance to Pamela Metcalf, an icy British psychiatrist in Miami on a book tour. As the body count mounts, suspicions fall on ambitious state attorney Nick Wolf, with a shadowy past in Vietnam; detective Alejandro Rodriquez; drunken drama professor and failed actor Gerald Prince; and the owners of Compu-Mate, ex-jockey Max Blinderman and his gorgeous spouse, Bobbie. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
### From Library Journal
The second psychological thriller pairing lawyer Jake Lassiter and retired coroner Charlie Riggs ( To Speak for the Dead , Bantam, 1990). Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 23
