What a great week!
CITY OF STONES (Detective Matt Jones,
Book 4) in Kindle and Paperback is on the pad and ready to launch JUNE 2! The Kindle
edition is available for PRE-ORDER now! The paperback goes LIVE on June 2, but with some help from my friends, may come out a few days sooner!
I hope you love the title and cover art as much as I do. Below is the complete version of the Story Summary and what I think is my best writing so far. For more info, please visit my website!
CITY OF STONES
A Killer’s Secret. A City’s Fate. A Detective Backed into a Corner.
With rookie detective Matt Jones recovering from the wounds he suffered in The Girl Buried in the Woods, and with his partner, Denny Cabrera, lucky to have survived but still unable to walk, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Brooks, makes a late-night call requesting a small favor . . .
“I've heard that you’re on medical leave,” Brooks says. “Meet me in the morning, Jones. I need you to see something that I can’t talk about on the phone.”
Unfortunately, when Jones shows up at the writer's beach house, he finds a crime scene that’s beyond the pale. And while LAPD brass and two hotshot FBI agents are calling the brutal murders the indiscriminate work of a madman, Matt Jones knows in his heart of hearts that Brooks was killed for something he knew . . .
For something he couldn’t talk about on the phone—a secret that someone’s been keeping for three long years. Jones’s drive to turn over the stones of the past is only matched by the murderer’s will to keep that secret buried. As one dead body turns up after the next, Jones finds himself cornered, and now, the killer’s next target. Chased through the night—with everything lost and the Grim Reaper reaching for his back—Jones makes the most shocking discovery of his life.
He’s just found the killer’s secret . . .
Praise for Robert Ellis & the Detective Matt Jones Thriller Series
“Stunning emotional force. Ellis keeps everything in focus while building a staggering momentum.” —Booklist Starred Review, CITY OF ECHOES
“Only really good writers can make you feel so strongly. CITY OF ECHOES is another bravura effort from the talented Robert Ellis.” —Mystery Scene magazine
“CITY OF ECHOES is an absorbing and entertaining read from first page to last and documents novelist Robert Ellis as a master of the genre.” —Midwest Book Review
“CITY OF ECHOES is a Best Book of the Month.” —Amazon.com
“Ellis eases new readers into the second Matt-centric novel . . . which results in a gleefully tense sequel. His relationships are complex. The mystery is straightforward. A persistently gripping thriller with strong characters.” —Kirkus Reviews, THE LOVE KILLINGS
“Ellis’s (Third) series entry is more thriller than mystery. The author works this to great effect as the story reveals the burden of unearthing evidence. Ellis generates an impressive amount of suspense. Solid entertainment.”—Kirkus Reviews, THE GIRL BURIED IN THE WOODS
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