Where Monsters Dwell by Jørgen Brekke, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Minotaur Books, is Where Monsters Dwell by Jørgen Brekke.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for February 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of February 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Where Monsters Dwell
Jørgen Brekke

A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books.

Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on similar murder cases, committed the same way, but half a world away. And both murders are somehow connected to a sixteenth century palimpsest book — The Book of John — which appears to be a journal of a serial murderer back in 1529 Norway, a book bound in human skin.