Written in Blood, 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781633883611)

A career homicide detective returns to his small hometown and is soon asked to investigate a series of local murders with a perverse literary twist. 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. As their questions increase, 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 one or both of them may be his next target.

Author: Layton Green
ISBN-10: 1633883612
ISBN-13: 9781633883611
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 335
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2017
Library Journal 10/01/2017 pg. 59
Booklist 11/01/2017 pg. 24