Graveyard Bay

by Thomas Kies

Overview

Time is running out...

The nude bodies of a corrupt judge and a Jane Doe are found under the icy, black waters at Groward Bay Marina, chained to the prongs of a mammoth fork lift. A videotape points to Merlin Finn, a ruthless gang leader with a proclivity for bondage and S&M who had recently broken out of prison. In the videotape, he's wearing a black leather bondage mask.

With the newspaper she works for about to be sold and her job in jeopardy, journalist Geneva Chase investigates pill mills, crooked doctors, and a massive money laundering scheme in an attempt to identify the murdered woman and find the killer. Along the way, she finds herself working with a disgraced New York cop and a host of other unlikely characters with ties to the criminal underworld.

Geneva is clearly hot on the killer's trail, but when she is kidnapped and held at the mercy of the criminals she hoped to stop, it looks like her chance to uncover the darkness that has seeped through her hometown may be lost forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781464211454
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Series:	Geneva Chase Crime Reporter Mysteries , #3
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Author of the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, Thomas Kies lives and writes on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina with his wife, Cindy, and Lilly, their shih-tzu. He has had a long career working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York, and is currently working on his next novel, Graveyard Bay.

Editorial Reviews

"Journalism may be changing, but investigative reporters like Geneva Chase will always find the truth. Graveyward Bay is a tense, razor-sharp hunt for some genuinely terrifying criminals, set in a vivid and believable New England winter." — Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Judgment

"When it comes to gritty real life plots, believable characters, and on-point descriptions of both people and place Thomas Kies can't be beat." — New York Journal of Books

From the Publisher

07/29/2019

At the outset of Kies’s unimpressive third Geneva Chase mystery (after 2018’s Darkness Lane), Chase’s position as an editor at the Sheffield Post, an independent Connecticut newspaper, is in jeopardy as a result of its impending sale to a corporate conglomerate. As soon as the new owner takes over, Chase is demoted to the crime beat under the supervision of her less-than-congenial replacement. Meanwhile, the bodies of a state judge and a private investigator are found in a local marina, chained to the prongs of a forklift. The murders were caught on a security camera, and the leader of the group of men who brought the victims to the marina resembles a vicious Russian thug Chase has encountered before. The authorities, including Chase’s ex-husband, Dep. Chief Mike Dillon, focus on Merlin Finn, a white supremacist the judge sent to prison, from which Finn broke out two weeks earlier. The plot follows predictable pathways, including a scene featuring a captive and near-naked Chase at the mercy of a sex-crazed sadist. Hopefully, Kies will do better next time. Agent: Kimberley Cameron, Kimberley Cameron & Assoc. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly