"From the first page to the last, this book wows." The Library Journal "Hewitt doesn't so much weigh the evidence as blow cool jazz riffs on it." Publishers Weekly "Excellent storytelling— keeps the reader challenged— this is one great author." New Mystery Reader

Separated at Death
Sheldon Rusch

First Time in Paperback

A middle-aged woman has been discovered beheaded in the bedroom of her suburban home. Even more shocking to Illinois State Special Agent Elizabeth Taylor Hewitt is that not only was the head removed, it was missing. An attempt to talk to the woman's estranged husband yields another startling surprise for Hewitt and her partner, Jen Spangler. He, too, is found dead at his home, lying amid the flowers of his perfectly tended garden, murdered in the same gruesome fashion.

Then an old wedding photo of the victims is sent anonymously to the local newspaper — perversely altered as a sick joke. But Hewitt is about to learn that this crime is not just a grisly vendetta leveled against one estranged couple. Because now another disillusioned husband and wife have been beheaded as well. And this won't be the last. A killer's secret ceremony has begun. And Hewitt's been invited to stop it.

(An Elizabeth Hewitt Mystery)
Berkley (Prime Crime), March 2009
ISBN #9780425226803
336 pages Paperback
$7.99

Also by Sheldon Rusch:
Separated at Death, April 2008
The Boy With Perfect Hands, September 2007
For Edgar, November 2006
The Boy With Perfect Hands, September 2006
For Edgar, August 2005

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