I was thrilled to be asked to participate in a serial mystery novel alongside some of my favorite authors. A serial novel is where there is a singular plot for a book, but multiple authors tell the story. So we each got an overview of the plot and then only the chapter preceding ours, before we were unleashed to write our contribution.

Talk about fun.

Not only that,  the brother-and-sister editing team, Andrew and Lamia Gulli of The STRAND magazine have arranged to donate all proceeds from NO REST FOR THE DEAD (excluding contributor expenses) to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

 

More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel — a collaboration that combines the skills of America’s greatest storytellers to produce a gripping, spellbinding mystery. The all-star lineup of authors behind No Rest for the Dead, a tale of vengeance, greed and love that flows seamlessly, in the words of David Baldacci, “as it passes from one creator’s mind to the next.”

 

Check out the list of contributors!

Jeff Abbott , Lori Armstrong, Sandra Brown, Thomas Cook, Jeffery Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew F. Gulli, Peter James, J.A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Raymond Khoury, John Lescroart, Jeff Lindsay, Gayle Lynds, Phillip Margolin,  Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Palmer, T. Jefferson Parker, Matthew Pearl, Kathy Reichs, Marcus Sakey, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, R.L. Sine, Marcia, Talley — with an introduction by David Baldacci

 

Here’s the jacket copy:

When the dead body of Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San Francisco’s McFall Art Museum, is found bloodied and decaying in an iron maiden in a museum in Berlin, his wife is the primary suspect. Rosemary Thomas is tried, convicted, and executed, but ten years later, Detective Jon Nunn remains convinced that the wrong person was put to death. In the years since he closed the case, Nunn has discovered a web of deceit and betrayal surrounding the Thomases that could implicate any number of people in the crime. With the help of the dead woman’s friend, Nunn makes plans to gather everyone who was at the McFall Museum the night Christopher was murdered in an attempt to finally uncover the truth, suspect by suspect. Solving this case may be Nunn’s last chance for redemption … but the shadowy forces behind Christopher’s death will stop at nothing to silence the past forever.

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I’ll give away a copy of this book in hard cover or digital to some lucky commenter!