THE BURNING BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN AND JESS KELLERMAN
HARDBACK PUBLISHED BY CENTURY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2021
ISBN 9781780899091
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his hilltop home, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is shocked to discover a link to his own brother Luke on the scene.
Luke is fresh out of prison and struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. But surely he’s not a killer ?
When Luke goes missing, the case becomes even more fraught for Clay. He knows that the conflict between family and the truth could take him down the wrong path.
Is his brother capable of murder ? Or could he be a victim too?
MY REVIEW
The bestselling writing duo, Jonathan and Jess Kellerman, return with a new unputdownable thriller featuring Clay Edison.
The first 8 pages of The Burning The new Clay Edison novel can be found on Amazon .
I have carried with on from chapter 1 with part of page 9.
Rory Vandervelde lay on his stomach, faced cocked to the left, wilting hair grazing the tiles. He wore black terry-cloth pants with a grosgrain stripe down the side and a gray silk shirt whose collar had partially torn off. There was a crescent shape gash over his left eye, a hole in his back, and another near the base of his neck. A third shot had bitten off a chunk of his left trapezius.
Blowflies swarmed, emitting a bowel- tickling drone. They’d colonized the wounds as well as the decedent’s mouth, nostrils,ears, and eyes. Eggs glistened like clumps of rice. A few had broken out into maggots. Competition was fierce. Most of the prime real estate was spoken for.
Heat accelerates postmortem processes. Tissue breakdown, rigor, livor, insect activity they’d all been ripping along, the off gasses collecting to create a fetid pressure cooker. Condensation streaked the windowpane. My educated guess was that Vandervelde had been dead no fewer than twelve hours, no more than a day. But that’s what autopsy’s for.
ABOUT AUTHOR JONATHAN KELLERMAN
Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than three dozen bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True Detectives, and The Murderer’s Daughter.
With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son, bestselling novelist Jesse Kellerman, he co-authored The Golem of Hollywood and The Golem of Paris.
He is also the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California, New Mexico, and New York.
https://www.jonathankellerman.com/
ABOUT AUTHOR JESS KELLERMAN
Jesse Kellerman has written dozens of plays and published seven novels, two of them cowritten with his father, Jonathan Kellerman. He has won numerous awards, including the Princess Grace Award for Playwriting (“Things Beyond Our Control”) and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle (“The Genius”/”Les Visages”). His novel “Potboiler” was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. An essay, “Let My People Go to the Buffet,” was included in Penguin’s Best American Spiritual Writing (2011). His next book, Crime Scene, was also cowritten with Jonathan Kellerman and will be published in fall 2017. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children.
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So cool that this Father/Son team can write so many great books together.
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I know! Clever how the writing talent runs in the family. 📝
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