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WRITTEN IN BLOOD
The novel is a page turner with compelling characters, including the quirky town of Creekville,
which emerges as a fascinating character unto itself. Layton is brilliant at building suspense
throughout the book right up to its unexpected denouement.
which emerges as a fascinating character unto itself. Layton is brilliant at building suspense
throughout the book right up to its unexpected denouement.
Detective Joe Preach Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers in Atlanta, and with a reputation as one of the finest homicide detectives in the city, his career derailed when he suffered a mental breakdown during the investigation of a serial killer who was targeting children.
No sooner does Preach arrive at home in Creekville, North Carolina-- a bohemian community near Chapel Hill-- than a local bookstore owner is brutally killed, the first murder in a decade. The only officer with homicide experience, Preach is assigned to the case and makes a shocking discovery: the bookstore owner has been murdered in exactly the same manner as the pawnbroker in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
With the help of Ariana Hale, a law student and bibliophile who knew the victim, Preach investigates the local writer's community. Once a second body is found, this time eerily resembling the crime scene in a famous Edgar Allan Poe novella, Preach and Ariana realize that their adversary is an intelligent, literate killer with a mind as devious as it is disturbed. And that one or both of them may be his next target.
Layton Green is a mystery/suspense/thriller writer and the author of the bestselling Dominic Grey series, as well as other works of fiction. His novels have cracked the Amazon Top 50 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and have topped numerous genre lists.
In addition to writing, Layton attended law school in New Orleans and was a practicing attorney for the better part of a decade. He has also been an intern for the United Nations, an ESL teacher in Central America, a bartender in London, a seller of cheap knives on the streets of Brixton, a door to door phone book deliverer in Florida, and the list goes downhill from there. Layton lives with his wife and children in the Atlanta area.
No sooner does Preach arrive at home in Creekville, North Carolina-- a bohemian community near Chapel Hill-- than a local bookstore owner is brutally killed, the first murder in a decade. The only officer with homicide experience, Preach is assigned to the case and makes a shocking discovery: the bookstore owner has been murdered in exactly the same manner as the pawnbroker in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
With the help of Ariana Hale, a law student and bibliophile who knew the victim, Preach investigates the local writer's community. Once a second body is found, this time eerily resembling the crime scene in a famous Edgar Allan Poe novella, Preach and Ariana realize that their adversary is an intelligent, literate killer with a mind as devious as it is disturbed. And that one or both of them may be his next target.
Layton Green is a mystery/suspense/thriller writer and the author of the bestselling Dominic Grey series, as well as other works of fiction. His novels have cracked the Amazon Top 50 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and have topped numerous genre lists.
In addition to writing, Layton attended law school in New Orleans and was a practicing attorney for the better part of a decade. He has also been an intern for the United Nations, an ESL teacher in Central America, a bartender in London, a seller of cheap knives on the streets of Brixton, a door to door phone book deliverer in Florida, and the list goes downhill from there. Layton lives with his wife and children in the Atlanta area.
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Published 2023-05-11 by Seventh Street Press |