Tell No Lies

In this thrill-packed stand-alone from Thriller Award–finalist Hurwitz (The Survivor), Daniel Brasher, a counselor working with ex-cons in San Francisco, receives an anonymous, semi-literate letter in his mailbox that reads: “admit what youv done. or you will bleed for it.” The letter is actually addressed to someone else, a man who, Brasher soon discovers, has just been brutally murdered. When he receives two more threat letters, each addressed to a new person, it becomes clear that the killer is sending a message. Brasher must examine the messy entanglements of his life to discover just why the killer is targeting him in this fashion. While at times a bit cloak and dagger—once Brasher looks in a standing mirror only to realize that “beyond the tilted bottom frame of the mirror” the killer’s boots are peaking out—the mystery lover will want to carry though until the somewhat strained end to learn the link between Brasher and the murderer. Agent: Lisa Erbach Vance, Aaron Priest Literary Agency. (Aug.)