Speaking for the Dead

“Recently, I wrote that ‘I always welcome a new mystery series from Bill Craig. A prolific writer, he cranks out stories that keep me hooked from Chapter 1 to The End.’ But before I could get that comment off to the publisher, Craig hits me with Book 1 in a totally new series, the Moseby and French Mysteries. Damn, I love this guy!”
- Byron McCafferty, Seattle Book Journal
When a body is found along Florida’s Suncoast Trail, Detective Sgt. Garrett Moseby and his partner Lucy French get the call. At just over six-three with wide shoulders, Moseby is an imposing figure. At five-three, with high cheekbones and bobbed nose, French is deceptively small, especially for a master of Krav Magna, the Israeli martial art. This case is going to be challenging: The victim, a slender blonde runner, didn’t see it coming. Nearby, they found an iPod MP3 with ear buds still in place. She had cuts all over her body like a rage killing. Sunny Cargill was quite dead. And the suspects are few – the guy who went to jail for attempting to rape her in college, the old boyfriend she got a restraining order against, maybe her apartment manager. The police shrink says it looks like a would-be serial killer. But something was off kilter here, especially when Moseby and French begin to feel like they’re being watched. This is a police procedural that doesn’t always go by the book.

Bill Craig is the best-selling author of more than 60 novels spread across the genres from mystery to pulp to science fiction to westerns. Bill is best know for his Marlow Key West mysteries and his Mitch Cooper mysteries. Bill often likes to say that it only took him 34 years to become an overnight success.