P.J. Parrish is the pen name for two sisters who write mysteries featuring Louis Kincaid, a police officer and sometime private investigator set in South Florida. The series started with Dark of the Moon back in 2000. I’ve only read one book by this pair and that was The Little Death (2010). I’ve never read the entire Louis Kincaid series. What impressed about their work with that one book is the plotting with it’s twists and turns and the characters. If you enjoy character driven series then this is your author.
The new series features a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist (is this a new trend now or what?) with some baggage. The first book is due out July 26th, the title: The Killing Song. I see that it’s coming out in Kindle (good deal). Not sure if I will read it. I tend to avoid crime fiction from the journalist’s perspective but since they write solid mysteries, I might give it a go. The synopsis is below the break for those interested in this new series. My only request would be for the authors to release more of their Louis Kincaid books in digital please.
Matt Owens is a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist, but at thirty-five, he’s adrift, more inclined to hit the bottle alone than the Miami Beach club scene. But when his beloved younger sister Mandy comes to visit, Matt wants to show her a new world. It’s the trip of her dreams, but the nightmare begins when Mandy disappears from a crowded dance floor. When her lifeless body is found, one clue—a grisly rock song downloaded onto her iPod—may be the calling card of a serial killer. Shattered with grief and guilt, Matt begins a lonely journey to find Mandy’s killer, following a chain of musical clues that lead him from an abandoned London rock club to a crumbling Scottish castle and finally to the ancient bone-strewn catacombs below Paris. Only one person believes in his quest—Eve Bellamont, a dedicated French detective whose own five-year obsession to find the phantom killer has left her an outcast in her own department. Together, they race to decipher the “killing songs” that the madman leaves with each victim and stop him before another beautiful young woman dies.
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