Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Minotaur Books, is The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb by David Handler.
For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb
David Handler
Series: Berger and Mitry (10th)
The historic New England village of Dorset has actually elected a living, breathing woman as its First Selectman. And now she's about to undertake the Historic District's biggest public works project in a generation — the widening and re-grading of Dorset Street. The job has needed doing for ages but the previous First Selectman, Bob Paffin, always opposed it. So did a lot of Dorset's blue-blooded old guard.
The long put-off dig uncovers a body buried underneath the pavement in front of the Congregational Church. It belongs to Lt. Lance Paffin, Bob Paffin's older brother, a dashing U.S. Navy flyer who went missing off his sailboat the night of the country club's spring dance more than forty years ago. Everyone had assumed he just left town. But now it's clear Lance has been under Dorset Street this whole time, and that he was murdered.
Des and Mitch soon discover that there are deep, dark secrets surrounding Dorset's elite, and some very distinguished careers have been built on lies.
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