Jim Doherty’s first novel, AN OBSCURE GRAVE, is now out in
eBook and trade paperback formats with the hardback coming very soon. Available
from the publisher, as well as Amazon
and elsewhere, it features Dan Sullivan, who first came to fictional life by
way of several short stories.
Amazon Synopisis:
A beautiful
victim. An elusive criminal. A part time policeman. Three pieces of the mystery
that is Jim Doherty's AN OBSCURE GRAVE.
Dan Sullivan, UC Berkeley undergrad and part-time cop, is
working the tip-line for a missing-persons case that is getting national
attention. DeeDee Merryweather, beautiful Cal co-ed, has disappeared. The
prevailing theory is that she's been abducted. But one of the tipsters, an
anonymous caller claiming psychic powers, believes it's a murder, because, she
says, she's sensed DeeDee's corpse buried in a makeshift tomb.
If she's right, the Berkeley Police and the FBI are on the
wrong track. But will a part-time reservist be able to put them on the right
one that leads to DeeDee's obscure grave? And, from there, to her killer?
Jim Doherty, author of JUST THE FACTS: TRUE TALES OF COPS AND
CRIMINALS, crafts a challenging mystery within this spot on police procedural.
An Obscure Grave, his first novel, was a finalist for a CWA Debut Dagger Award,
competing with hundreds of entries from all over the world.
