Bøger af Bv Lawson

Some secrets of the dead can torture the living.Scott Drayco thought he'd seen it all after his years in the FBI and as a private crime consultant. But nothing prepared him for the bombshell hidden within the walls of a historic Victorian mansion being used as a movie set. Although some of the movie's cast and crew believe the production is cursed, Drayco suspects life is imitating art in a most gruesome way.After a decades-old murder is exposed, Drayco is hired to get to the bottom of the mystery, even though he knows-from his own painful personal experience-most cold cases are never solved. Digging deeper, he discovers some of the movie crew may not be who they appear to be and that the past is very much alive and determined to catch up with the present.Hunted by a killer who will stop at nothing to protect explosive secrets, Drayco must navigate the treacherous waters of cover-ups and deception to get to the bottom of the mystery. But when Drayco is also targeted, he realizes the stakes reach even higher than he imagined.PRAISE FOR BV LAWSON'S CRIME FICTION:"Worth putting on your reading list." - Library Journal"Lawson's protagonist is greatly compelling." - Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize"A well-plotted mystery with wonderfully drawn characters." - Long and Short Reviews

How would you solve your own kidnapping? And what if the reason behind it was even stranger than you could imagine?When detective Scott Drayco is abducted and given a mysterious puzzle to solve, his predicament is bizarre enough. But after he's released and one of his kidnappers is killed-a man who allegedly died five years ago-what began as a puzzling situation turns into an even stranger quest.Who was the mastermind behind the kidnapping, and what were their real motives? Was the death of the one kidnapper an accident ... or murder? And how did it all tie into Drayco's abduction?Meanwhile, Drayco's father, Brock, has a new girlfriend with a shady background, and the timing of the relationship feels far too coincidental. When an even shadier connection also appears to be involved in Drayco's abduction, the stakes become deeply personal.Feeling stymied at every turn and unable to get a song the dead man was obssessed with out of his head, Drayco wonders if he's too close to the case to be objective. With justice-and Drayco's relationship with his father-on the line, Drayco has to get to the bottom of the mystery soon, or more people could die ...