Last summer,
J. Mark Bertrand's critically-acclaimed
crime novel Back
on Murder launched
a series about Houston homicide detective Roland March. Now
the next book in the series, Pattern
of Wounds, which Publishers Weekly describes as
"gritty and chilling," is available for purchase.
In Pattern of
Wounds, it's Christmas
in Houston, and homicide detective Roland March is on the
hunt for a killer. A young woman's brutal stabbing in an
affluent neighborhood bears all the hallmarks of a serial
murder. The only problem is that March sent the murderer
to prison ten years ago. Is it a copycat -- or did March
convict the wrong man?
Alienated from his colleagues and
with a growing rift in his marriage, March receives messages
from the killer. The bodies pile up, the pressure builds,
and the violence reaches too close to home. Up against an
unfathomable evil, March struggles against the clock to understand
the hidden message in the pattern of wounds.
J. Mark Bertrand lived
in Houston, where the series is set, for fifteen years, earning
an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
But after one hurricane too many he left for
South Dakota. Mark has been arrested for a crime he didn't
commit, was the foreman of one hung jury and served on another
that acquitted Vinnie Jones of assault. In 1972, he won an
honorable mention in a child modeling contest, but pursued
writing instead.
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