Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2017 …

Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik, A Coleridge Taylor Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Camel Press

  

In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York's tabloid war — only rewrite what they get. Constantly on the lookout for victims who need their stories told, he uncovers other killings being ignored because of the media circus. He goes after one, the story of a young Black woman gunned down in her apartment building the same night Son of Sam struck elsewhere in Queens.

The story entangles Taylor with a wealthy Park Avenue family at war with itself. Just as he's closing in on the killer and his scoop, the July 13-14 blackout sends New York into a 24-hour orgy of looting and destruction. Taylor and his PI girlfriend Samantha Callahan head out into the darkness, where a steamy night of mob violence awaits them.

In the midst of the chaos, a suspect in Taylor's story goes missing. Desperate, he races to a confrontation that will either break the story — or Taylor.

— Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for October 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.