During an early morning jog, Atlanta attorney Tom Halloran discovers the body of his friend and colleague, Elliot Carter, hanging from a tree in Piedmont Park. Even worse, the private and dignified Carter is grotesquely dressed in women's clothes. Halloran is convinced that Elliot's death is murder, not a tragic accident of autoerotic asphyxia-gone-wrong. But the medical examiner's investigator, Hollis Joplin, is skeptical. He knows how difficult it would be to fake that kind of death, and he's seen too much in his years on the Atlanta streets to be surprised by what people are capable of doing-to themselves or others. Then two more people die, and the clues lead back to a twenty-year-old kidnapping. The under-staffed Atlanta PD can't give the case attention unless Carter's death is ruled a homicide, so Joplin, with an eidetic memory that allows him to recall in three dimensions everything he's seen, sets out to investigate it himself. Piece by piece, he and the relentless Halloran unravel a tale of greed, revenge, and family secrets-and put themselves right in the crosshairs of a calculating and ruthless killer.

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Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Doss, P. L.

Mystery

Mayfair Press

Hollis Joplin, a death investigator with the Milton County Medical Examiner's Office, is back on the job after being attacked and almost killed three months earlier. But he almost wishes he'd stayed home when he's called to a scene that's unlike any he's ever encountered before. Libba Ann Woodridge, the young, beautiful widow of a much older Atlanta businessman, has been found in her bed, covered in blood. Blood that has spattered everything around her, including the walls and ceiling. And to make matters worse, she's a client of Tom Halloran's, the high-powered attorney who made Joplin's life miserable during the murder investigation that almost killed him. It's enough to make him want to go home and call in sick, especially since he's dreading having to see Dr. Carrie Salinger again. Their budding romance was derailed by Carrie's affair with Joplin's best friend, Jack, who's now dead. And then, of course, there's that damned colostomy bag he has to wear. Reluctantly, Joplin is once again pulled into a collaboration with Halloran that will involve more deaths, a lot more blood, and a ruthless serial killer who may have ties to Atlanta's art scene. They are guided by the expert hand of Jimmy Hernandez, a nationally acclaimed bloodstain expert who's called upon to try to figure out what really happened to Libba Ann, a former beauty queen, and another young woman whose body is found behind a gas station. The scenes are eerily alike, although the victims' circumstances couldn't have been more different. While Halloran deals with members of Arliss Woodridge's family who are trying to overturn his will, Joplin tries to discover the connection between the two women and is led to a mysterious painting found in the bedroom of a prominent doctor murdered five years earlier. As usual, they keep secrets from each other. Secrets that will ultimately put both of them--and Carrie Salinger--in grave danger once again.

Blood Will Tell

Southern Cross

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Blood Will Tell

Southern Cross