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photo: emkellythrillers.com 396 pages, published by Great Blue Hill Publishing, ©2024 In the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts , Colton Baker is ready for his first day as a detective. That first day will include a call to investigate a dead body at the train station. It will turn out to be the first of many victims of a serial killer, and it's just one of the tasks Baker is faced with in E.M. Kelly's "Murder by Symbols". Victims and Their Clues Throughout the book, the new detective takes on challenges at work and at home. The body at the train station becomes another case file added to a pile Baker was hoping to whittle down in his new position. It's not going to get any easier for him as more victims are found around town. The victims have coins over their eyes, coins from the time of the American Revolution. What is the significance of the coins, and do they have any connection with the symbols tattooed to the victims' foreheads? Speaking of the tattoos, th...

242 pages; Published by Black Lyon Publishing , ©2021 Saxonbourg, Pennsylvania Police Chief Greg Adams stopped a vehicle on the cold afternoon of December 4, 1980. It would be the last stop of his life. Adams was gunned down by Donald Webb, a low-level mobster who spent the next 36 1/2 years in hiding after the murder. After Adams is shot, a tense ambulance ride to the hospital follows, but it is too late as the police chief is declared dead. A manhunt follows as the Saxonbourg Police Department tries to close in on the killer. Webb is able to escape their efforts, and it won't be the last time he proves to be elusive.  What happened during the next three-plus decades after Chief Adams' murder was an international manhunt that comprised of the Saxonbourg Police Department, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts State Police Departments, and the F.B.I. Maureen Boyle's "The Ghost" traces the work of different people from the Northeast who passed the baton and paperwork ...