Court of Lies and Deceit by Marion Blackwood

Court of Lies and Deceit by Marion Blackwood

This book is former Police Chief Mark Beckner's third in a series of crime thrillers. This book entails two separate novels of murder, intrigue, mystery, action, and suspense. Readers will find it hard to put this book down. Approximately 94,000 words.

In the first story, readers of Death From Desire will be happy to find Miami Detective Rick Baez back to work and teamed again with Detective Leah Mitchell as they try to unravel the mystery of the half-submerged naked body found in a Miami swamp. Something sinister is at work. It gets worse when a second body is found.....then a third. Are the cases connected? Is there a serial killer on the loose in Miami? What is the connection to Georgia, if any? What they don't know will shock them, and maybe you.

In the following story, Detective Juan Garcia (Behind The Lies) has been transferred from the east side of Chicago and is now working in the downtown district. He has moved on from the Candy Man case (or has he) and is now working with his first female partner, Detective Hannah Elsberg. Their first case together appears to be a simple homicide, but soon turns into a trail pointing in multiple directions. A woman is found shot dead in her own bedroom. Who would kill a successful businesswoman living in an upscale downtown condominium? Are the drugs found on the floor part of the motive? Is her husband a cold-blooded murderer, or is he being truthful? Is there another woman involved? Full of action and mystery.