The Cameo: A Murder Mystery

by Royce Wilson

For true fans of police crime mysteries written with authenticity and attention to detail, the Riley Scott detective series will bring to mind Harry Bosch and Alex Cross.The Cameo is the second book in the Riley Scott detective series and is proving to be one of the best murder mystery novels to come along in some time. Written with the reader in mind who does not want to have the clues placed in front of them like a trail of breadcrumbs, The Cameo is a thrill ride like no other.Every book has a line, a page, or even a chapter that is so powerful the reader stays with it and re-reads that part over and over again. If there were a Book of Evil, the chapter on Lowell Huffman would be that part; dog-eared and worn edges, the chapter on the man whose darkness knows no depth and no margins would catch you reading it again and again.Huffman is dark and evil; pure and simple.As a homicide detective in Tampa, Florida, Riley Scott has seen his fair share of murders, but never has he looked so deeply into the eyes of a man who enjoyed it; a man who breathed it in like oxygen and drank it up like water. Scott has looked into those eyes and knows he is in a race to save the latest captive of the killer—a killer who escaped police custody and now taunts Scott and terrorizes Tampa. Just when Scott thinks he is getting close to Huffman, he realizes he is barely one step behind.But when a 9-1-1 call leads police to a dead body with a screwdriver protruding from its neck, and the body is identified as the man Scott has been chasing, and the call was made by one of the killer’s surviving victims, it’s case closed, right?A few days after the man’s body is discovered, Scott’s instincts wake him from his sleep and lead him back into the hunt.

400 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 9, 2021

About the author

July 2022 I gave 2 presentations at Sleuthfest 2022 (a conference for mystery writers and their fans). My presentations were on forensic matters for mystery writers.
I have 40 years in law enforcement forensics and teaching Death Investigations and Criminal Forensics at the university level.
I write stories that are compelling, captivating, and entertaining page-turners. My stories are rich in authenticity, with true to life dialogue and descriptions of crime scenes, along with insight into how murders are really investigated, all with the reader's enjoyment in mind.
I want to take the reader on a trip that is filled with tension and twists, culminating in something unexpected.
Visit my website for more information on me and to see my books.
https://www.roycewilsonmysteries.com/