Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during December 2014 is …
The Wolf and the Lamb by Frederick Ramsay, a The Jerusalem Mysteries Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for December 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of December 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
More about our featured title, below …
It's Passover. Gamaliel, and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time — reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his own business. But Gamaliel is a Just Man which is, as Pilate points out, "your weakness and also your strength."
Knowing that exonerating the Roman could cost him his position, possibly his life, Gamaliel, as would Sherlock Holmes centuries later, examines evidence and sorts through tangled threads, teasing out suspects who include assassins, Roman nobles, Pilate's wife, rogue legionnaires, slaves, servants, thespians, and a race horse named Pegasus. Unusually, justice triumphs over enmity. Gamaliel is satisfied, High Priest Caiphas is irate, Loukas accepts an apprentice from Tarsus, and few notice the events of what will later be known as Easter.
— The Wolf and the Lamb by Frederick Ramsay
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