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Bone Maker
A death in the wilderness.
A woman mourns alone.
A reporter works a single lead.
BONE MAKER fuses Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO with the frenzied pace of Michael Connelly's THE POET.
"When San Francisco crime reporter Will Finch ventures into the Oregon wilderness to investigate the brutal murder of a key witness in a multimillion-dollar scam, he finds more questions than answers... A pulse-pounding thriller!" — BookBub
Following a family tragedy that has broken his spirit, crime reporter Will Finch returns to his news desk in San Francisco eager to reboot his career and renew his lease on life.
When he's assigned to cover the grisly death of a witness to a multi-million dollar bitcoin fraud, Finch discovers some troubling A Mercedes-Benz abandoned in the wilderness. A wounded bear. A cop who rules a remote town with an iron fist. And the witness's fiancee — a US senator's daughter — knows there's something mysterious about her lover's death. But what?
Inspired by true events, Bone Maker is the first thriller in this series of noir crime novels; a new crime trilogy that races from coastal Oregon to San Francisco, Moscow, Honolulu, and Washington DC. It intersects the worlds of international finance, cryptocurrency software algorithms, and corruption that reach from the US Senate to Turk Street in the Tenderloin District.
Be sure to read this gripping series in Bone Maker, Stone Eater, Lone Hunter. All three books are available now.
Bone Maker is a Whistler Independent Book Award Finalist.
A woman mourns alone.
A reporter works a single lead.
BONE MAKER fuses Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO with the frenzied pace of Michael Connelly's THE POET.
"When San Francisco crime reporter Will Finch ventures into the Oregon wilderness to investigate the brutal murder of a key witness in a multimillion-dollar scam, he finds more questions than answers... A pulse-pounding thriller!" — BookBub
Following a family tragedy that has broken his spirit, crime reporter Will Finch returns to his news desk in San Francisco eager to reboot his career and renew his lease on life.
When he's assigned to cover the grisly death of a witness to a multi-million dollar bitcoin fraud, Finch discovers some troubling A Mercedes-Benz abandoned in the wilderness. A wounded bear. A cop who rules a remote town with an iron fist. And the witness's fiancee — a US senator's daughter — knows there's something mysterious about her lover's death. But what?
Inspired by true events, Bone Maker is the first thriller in this series of noir crime novels; a new crime trilogy that races from coastal Oregon to San Francisco, Moscow, Honolulu, and Washington DC. It intersects the worlds of international finance, cryptocurrency software algorithms, and corruption that reach from the US Senate to Turk Street in the Tenderloin District.
Be sure to read this gripping series in Bone Maker, Stone Eater, Lone Hunter. All three books are available now.
Bone Maker is a Whistler Independent Book Award Finalist.
239 pages, Hardcover
Published May 10, 2022
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About the author
D.F. Bailey
21 books116 followersD.F. Bailey is a W.H. Smith First Novel Award and a Whistler Independent Book Award finalist.
His first novel, Fire Eyes was optioned for film. His second novel, Healing the Dead, was translated into German as Todliche Ahnungen. The Good Lie, another psychological thriller, was recorded as a talking book. A fourth novel, Exit from America, made its debut as an e-book in 2013.
In 2015 D.F. Bailey published The Finch Trilogy — Bone Maker, Stone Eater, and Lone Hunter — novels narrated from the point-of-view of a crime reporter in San Francisco. He is now extending the trilogy in a series of stand-alone novels.
Following his birth in Montreal, D.F. Bailey's family moved around North America from rural Ontario to New York City to McComb, Mississippi to Cape May, New Jersey. He finally "landed on his feet" on Vancouver Island — where he lives next to the Salish Sea in the city of Victoria.
For twenty-two years D.F. Bailey worked at the University of Victoria where he taught creative writing and journalism and coordinated the Professional Writing Cooperative Education Program — which he co-founded. From time to time he also freelanced as a business writer and journalist. In the fall of 2010 he left the university so that he could turn "his pre-occupation with writing into a full-blown obsession."
For more information about D.F. Bailey's books and his free newsletter visit: www.dfbailey.com
His first novel, Fire Eyes was optioned for film. His second novel, Healing the Dead, was translated into German as Todliche Ahnungen. The Good Lie, another psychological thriller, was recorded as a talking book. A fourth novel, Exit from America, made its debut as an e-book in 2013.
In 2015 D.F. Bailey published The Finch Trilogy — Bone Maker, Stone Eater, and Lone Hunter — novels narrated from the point-of-view of a crime reporter in San Francisco. He is now extending the trilogy in a series of stand-alone novels.
Following his birth in Montreal, D.F. Bailey's family moved around North America from rural Ontario to New York City to McComb, Mississippi to Cape May, New Jersey. He finally "landed on his feet" on Vancouver Island — where he lives next to the Salish Sea in the city of Victoria.
For twenty-two years D.F. Bailey worked at the University of Victoria where he taught creative writing and journalism and coordinated the Professional Writing Cooperative Education Program — which he co-founded. From time to time he also freelanced as a business writer and journalist. In the fall of 2010 he left the university so that he could turn "his pre-occupation with writing into a full-blown obsession."
For more information about D.F. Bailey's books and his free newsletter visit: www.dfbailey.com
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