Thanks to the miracle of Scribd, you can now read an official excerpt from Back on Murder, which releases officially on July 1. This version includes Chapters 1 and 2 in their typeset glory, so enjoy!Back on Murder
J. Mark Bertrand
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- J. Mark Bertrand is the author of Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and the forthcoming Nothing to Hide, crime novels featuring Houston homicide detective Roland March. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston and lived in the city for fifteen years. After one hurricane too many, he and his wife moved to South Dakota. Mark has been arrested for a crime he didn't commit, was the foreman of a hung jury in Houston, and after relocating served on the jury that acquitted Vinnie Jones of assault. In 1972, he won an honorable mention in a child modeling contest, but pursued writing instead.
Books by Bertrand
J. Mark Bertrand: Nothing to Hide
The third book in the series takes March into the world of the paranoid conspiracy thriller: a headless corpse, the Mexican cartels, gun runners, and an ex-spook obsessed with Dante.J. Mark Bertrand: Pattern of Wounds
In his second outing, March hunts a vicious killer while trying to keep a decade-old conviction from falling apart. A compulsively readable follow-up that Publisher's Weekly calls "gritty and chilling."J. Mark Bertrand: Back on Murder
My crime novel Back on Murder, the first in a series about Houston homicide detective Roland March, is on bookshelves now.Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand: Beguiled: A Novel
My friend Dee and I teamed up for a fusion of romance (her genre) and crime (mine) set in modern day Charleston.J. Mark Bertrand: Rethinking Worldview
David Naugle dubbed this book on worldview thinking "...a rich gift to serious citizens of the kingdom of God."
Historical Note
- Write About Now is the successor to my original fiction blog called Notes on Craft. The archive there is still online and dates from March 2004 to September 2007. Feel free to explore it at your leisure.
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