Grave Undertaking
Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin' Barry is an undertaker with a problem he keeps finding unwanted business. Moving a grave on a snowy mountainside should be routine. No funeral, no procession, no grieving widow to console. Routine until Barry unearths an unexpected intruder, a skeleton lying atop the original occupant. A bullet hole in the skull piques his ex-cop curiosity; the photograph of his girlfriend Susan Miller in the murdered man's wallet makes the case very personal. Suddenly, Barry's life is turned upside down, as Susan becomes the prime suspect.
Joining forces with his pal Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry sets out to find the real killer. But a terrible secret had been buried in that mountain grave and one murder is only the down payment someone is willing to pay to keep it hidden. Barry is torn between discovering the solution to the crime and uncovering a part of Susan's past that could destroy their relationship. When the killer strikes again, Barry learns that even more is at stake. In a duel of deceit and misdirection, o
Mystery writer Mark de Castrique has authored twenty-three books. His novels have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. The CHICAGO TRIBUNE wrote, “As important and as impressive as the author’s narrative skills are the subtle ways he captures the geography – both physical and human – of a unique part of the American South.” Mark is a veteran of the broadcast and film production business. In Washington DC, he directed numerous news and public affairs programs and received an EMMY Award for his documentary film work. His years in Washington inspired his DC thrillers, THE 13TH TARGET, involving a terrorist plot against The Federal Reserve, THE SINGULARITY RACE, a winner-take-all quest for Artificial Intelligence, and SECRET LIVES and DANGEROUS WOMEN, featuring Ethel Fiona Crestwater, a seventy-five-year-old retired FBI agent who now rents rooms to active agents and is the smartest and most fearless of anyone in her household. SECRET LIVES is nominated for the Edgars G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award.
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Blackman&#;s Coffin starts a new series by Mark de Castrique, author of the Buryin' Barry Mysteries.
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Webb Hubbell’s new Jack Patterson thriller, Light of Day, finds the antitrust lawyer unsure of whom he can trust. Indebted to a Louisiana crime boss for protecting his daughter, Jack agrees to represent the mobster’s grandson, a computer whiz who hasWebb Hubbell’s new Jack Patterson thriller, Light of Day, finds the antitrust lawyer unsure of whom he can trust. Indebted to a Louisiana crime boss for protecting his daughter, Jack agrees to represent the mobster’s grandson, a computer whiz who has been indicted and jailed for allegedly stealing a software program from a consortium of big name Silicon Valley tech companies.
Some kind of misunderstanding, Jack presumes. Except that the U.S. Government is filing criminal charges, claiming national security issues and blocking Jack’s access to the sealed indictments and even consultations with his client. The deck is stacked against him, but someone wants him out of the game permanently.
Readers will find the life and death action outside the courtroom is surpassed by the tense legal drama inside where Jack and his team must create a multilayered, unexpected defense to outwit the prosecution while saving the
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