Death Notice
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- 8,49 €
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- 8,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, was always a sleepy little town…until the first body was found. Embalmed and with its lips sewn shut, the body is a horrific calling card from a killer on the lookout for their next victim…
It’s the message that nobody wants to hear…
Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, is a sleepy little town. That is
until George Winnick’s body is found in a homemade coffin,
his lips sewn shut and his veins pumped with embalming fluid.
Sickening as the discovery is, it becomes even more so when
police chief Kat Campbell finds that the local newspaper
received a death notice for Winnick – before he was killed…
Kat is out of her depth, but she’s not about to sit by while
someone terrorizes her community. Will her efforts be enough
to stop a twisted killer before another corpse appears?
Reviews
“With Death Notice, talented newcomer Todd Ritter takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of thrills and chills. Ritter has conceived a mystery that will remain in your memory long after you finish the book. Just don’t read it when you’re alone.”
Linda Castillo, New York Times bestselling author of Pray for Silence.
“Death Notice is a tense and twisty whodunit from a fresh new voice in fiction. With well-drawn characters and spare, unflinching prose, Todd Ritter offers an atmospheric and emotionally rich debut. Mystery fans will love their visit to Ritter’s Perry Hollow.”
Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Fragile
“An impressive first novel.” Reviewingtheevidence.com
About the author
Todd Ritter was born in rural Pennsylvania to a bank teller mother and a father who dabbled in taxidermy. He grew up among Bambi-esque forests and wide-open fields straight out of the cropduster scene from North by Northwest. Appropriately, his two biggest influences are Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock.
A journalist for more than 15 years, he began his career as a film critic while attending Penn State University. Currently, he works at The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper. In the interim, he has interviewed celebrities, covered police standoffs and, yes, even written and edited obituaries.
His first mystery, DEATH NOTICE, was published in October by St. Martin's Minotaur. He is a proud member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. He is currently working on his second Kat Campbell mystery, BAD MOON.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Unusually interesting people encounter unusually ghastly murders in New Jersey journalist Ritter s engaging debut. Single-mom police chief Kat Campbell of peaceful Perry Hollow, Pa., is shocked to find a local farmer s corpse left by the side of the road in a homemade coffin, his lips sewn together and his veins pumped full of formaldehyde. Meanwhile, Henry Goll, reclusive obituary writer for the Perry Hollow Gazette, is startled to realize that the man s death notice was faxed to him before the murder. Evidently, one of the townsfolk is a clever homicidal maniac who enjoys playing mind games. The murderer keeps nimbly ahead of his pursuers, even after Nick Donnelly, a state cop obsessed with serial killers, arrives on the scene. The action verges on pulp fiction melodrama, until a fiery conclusion that fully lives up or down to that standard. Even then, however, Ritter treats his main characters sympathetic, believably vulnerable people with respect.
