Devil's Night: A Mystery (Kat Campbell Mysteries) - Hardcover

Ritter, Todd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250028531 ISBN 13: 9781250028532

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2013

Synopsis

Two things Perry Hollow Police Chief Kat Campbell never thought she would do again: Enter a burning building, and lay eyes on Henry Goll, the man who was trapped inside with her the last time she was in one. So Kat's on high alert when, barely a year after the dust settled around the Grim Reaper killings, both happen on the same day.

She's jolted awake at 1a.m. by a desperate phone call telling her Perry Hollow's one and only museum―home to all the town's historical artifacts―has been set on fire. Arriving at the scene, Kat catches just a glimpse of Henry's face among the crowd before she's rushed into the charred building, only to find the museum curator dead…bludgeoned, not burned. Kat has lived through some tense moments and seen some gruesome crimes, but the next twenty-four hours will be the most dangerous of her life as she and Henry seek out a killer and the motivation behind these terrifying crimes.

Todd Ritter returns to the beloved town of Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania with Devil's Night, his most poignant, cleverly plotted novel yet.

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About the Author

TODD RITTER, author of Death Notice and Bad Moon, is a career journalist and currently works at The Star-Ledger. He lives in Belle Mead, New Jersey. Devil's Night is his third novel.

Reviews

An early-morning fire at the Perry Hollow (Pa.) Historical Museum and Exhibition Hall turns out to be the work of an arsonist, in Ritter's satisfying third mystery featuring big-hearted police chief Kat Campbell (after 2011's Bad Moon). Whoever set the fire also appears to have murdered Connie Bishop, the historical society's president, whose bludgeoned body is found in a crawl space below the museum's gallery. Written on the victim's hand in black marker are the words: this is just the first. A stranger Kat encounters at the scene may be a suspect. Meanwhile, Henry Goll, who was disfigured in the last major fire in Perry Hollow, a year earlier, unexpectedly reappears from Italy. A sack of old bones adds another puzzle, and an international developer has ambitious, unspecified plans for the town. Ritter smoothly blends history and mystery, tragedy and near-tragedy, as Kat courageously tracks down the culprit. Agent: Michelle Brower, Folio Literary Management. (Aug.)

Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, Police Chief Kat Campbell has had more than her fair share of big cases (Death Notice, 2010). This time, Perry Hollow’s Historical Society and Exhibition Hall is set on fire, and two corpses are found inside—the first, the kindly curator, and the second, a previously unearthed skeleton. On Halloween, a historic hotel goes up in flames. Who’s torching the town’s landmarks? Still scarred from the torture he endured during the Grim Reaper killings, journalist Henry Goll is back in Perry Hollow to write about an Italian millionaire who just bought the town’s abandoned mill. Henry and Kat work together chasing leads—a disgruntled firefighter with an arrest record, a businesswoman banking on the mill sale going through, and a witch from Salem, Massachusetts, who believes the town has a long-buried Wiccan secret. Don’t let the small-town setting fool you; this is no cozy. The deaths are devastating, and single-mom Kat is a hardworking professional detective. A series well worth recommending. --Karen Keefe

Edition details

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250028531
• ISBN 13: 9781250028532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352