Sticks and Stones by Michael Hiebert, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during June 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during June 2016 …

Sticks and Stones by Michael Hiebert, A Leah Teal Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Kensington

  

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Fifteen years ago, a serial killer tagged by the media as the Stickman spread terror throughout Alabama and became Alvin detective Joe Fowler's obsession. After fifteen months and nine victims, Harry Stork was identified as the Stickman and Fowler shot him dead. The killings stopped. For a while.

Now, more bodies are turning up, each staked through the chest with a stick-figure drawing in the killer's signature style. Detective Leah Teal — Joe Fowler's daughter and Alvin's sole detective — receives a letter before each victim is found, just like her late father did. The only people who knew about the letters were the cops on the taskforce back then — and the killer himself. Did Joe shoot the wrong man, or was one of the detectives he handpicked involved all along? As a single mother, Leah tries to balance an increasingly disturbing case and a new relationship with caring for her children — bright, perceptive Abe, and teenaged Caroline, who's in the first flush of young love. But with each menacing communication, each gruesome discovery, Leah realizes just how personal, and how devastating, the truth may be.

— Sticks and Stones by Michael Hiebert

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for June 2016. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of June 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.