Joseph Reid is the author of Takeoff, which introduced air marshal turned investigator Seth Walker. The son of a navy helicopter pilot, Reid was a marine biologist before becoming a patent lawyer who litigates multi-million-dollar cases for high-tech companies. He has flown millions of miles on commercial aircraft and has spent countless hours in airports…
Last Ragged Breath by Julia Keller is the 4th mystery in the West Virginia Prosecutor Bell Elkins series (available August 25, 2015). Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three other souls-died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old when he was ripped from…
My phone didn’t have a single bar of reception. Logic said this was because my phone was notoriously unreliable and the forested hills were blocking any nearby towers. But when you’re walking into Point Pleasant, West Virginia for The Mothman Festival and come face to face with the giant gleaming statue of the red-eyed beast…
Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller is the 3rd mystery in the Bell Elkins series about the County prosecutor after she's returned to her Appalachian hometown in West Virginia (available August 26, 2014). High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia—but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small…
Designed to Death by Christina Freeburn is the second cozy mystery in the funny Faith Hunter Scrap This series set in Eden, West Virginia (available September 10, 2013). I don’t know if there is such a thing as a typical scrapbooker. But if there is, Faith Hunter would not be who I would imagine. She…
Bitter River by Julia Keller is the second procedural featuring West Virginia's Prosecutor Bell Elkins, in which she'll investigate a teen girl's death (available September 3, 2013). Some people possess an uncanny ability to read people. They interpret someone's body language, tone of voice or mannerisms in a blink. People like Bell Elkins can read…
