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| Robert Ellis |
Just finished the copyedit. My creative editor calls
CITY OF ECHOES "a tour de force" so it sounds like we're off to a
pretty great start!
For all my fans who love the Lena Gamble novels, I
offer you this challenge. I'm going to say here and now that you're going to
love Matthew Trevor Jones even more. CITY OF ECHOES is billed as a Matthew
Trevor Jones Thriller. The story is set in Lena Gamble's world of Hollywood and
Los Angeles. Lena even makes a brief, but memorable appearance at the
very end of the novel.
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| City of Echoes by Robert Ellis |
But this is Matt Jones's story. Jones grew up
in New Jersey. When his father abandoned him as a young boy, his aunt took in Jones and raised
him. After she died, Jones signed up and went off to Afghanistan where he met
another soldier, Kevin Hughes. Hughes convinced Matt to move to Los Angeles and
join him as an LAPD cop. CITY OF ECHOES begins five years after that. Matt has just
been promoted to Hollywood Homicide and is handed his first murder case. Unfortunately
for Matt, the murder is so horrific and twisted it staggers the imagination.
There's no way a rookie homicide detective should have been handed this case.
Once you start reading the first chapter of CITY OF ECHOES, this one's
not going to let go. My former editor always used to say that she thought each
one of my novels was better than the next. When I turned in MURDER SEASON, she
loved it so much she told me that she doubted I could ever top it. I guess I
wasn't listening! Or maybe she lit a fire under me, and I had to dig deep down
to deliver something new and fresh and even better for my new editor and
publisher.
It's hard to imagine writing anything more personal than THE DEAD ROOM, but CITY OF ECHOES is the thriller I think I've been waiting for my entire creative life. So I offer you my challenge. I think you're
going to love meeting Matthew Trevor Jones as much as I loved writing about
him.
CITY OF ECHOES will be published August 25,
2015. Although we don't have cover art just yet, the novel can be pre-ordered
at Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Amazon Germany (English Edition).
Sleep Loose,
Robert
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