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2024 WhoDunIt Mystery Writing Competition, Award Winner. ""A hot day in a small town is the setting for an ominous opening chapter. It takes skill to convey suspense to the reader. The skill comes by making the reader fully aware that something is going to happen that most likely will be horrific, but we're left in the dark, so must hang on and continue to follow a skilled writer walking us down a twisting path that grows darker by the minute.""-Ambrose Clancy, Editor, Shelter Island Reporter Thy Brother's Keeper weaves familial trauma, political power, and a chilling series of murders into a compelling psychological thriller. The novel centers on Declan Ryan, the sheriff of Owen, Oklahoma, who is thrust into a complex murder investigation just as his estranged brother Connor is released from prison. Twenty-five years earlier, Connor brutally murdered their abusive parents, leaving Declan emotionally scarred and forced into the foster system. Now, Connor reappears with a plea: help him find his missing fiancée, Maria Luna-a woman who has just been discovered gruesomely murdered at a local motel.

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John David Bethel is an award-winning author whose novels include EVIL TOWN, HOTEL HELL, UNHEARD OF, HOLDING BACK THE DARK and A WASHINGTON TRILOGY. He has also been published in popular consumer magazines and respected political journals. Mr. Bethel spent 35 years in politics and government. He served in the Federal Senior Executive Service as a political appointee where he was Senior Adviser/Director of Speechwriting for the Secretaries of Commerce and Education; Editorial Director for the U.S. Small Business Administration; and Assistant Administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Communications and Citizen Services. Bethel also worked as press secretary/speechwriter to Members of Congress. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Tulane University and lives in Orlando, Florida.

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