MICHELLE GAGNON
Boneyard
(Mira, $6.99 paperback original)

FBI special agent Kelly Jones has worked on many disturbing cases in her career, but nothing like this. A mass grave site unearthed on the Appalachian Trail puts Kelly at the head of an investigation that crosses the line -- from Massachusetts to Vermont, from wealthy vacationers to poor transients, from a serial killer to a copycat nemesis. Assisted by law enforcement from both states and a forensic anthropologist, Kelly searches for the killers. But as darkness falls, another victim is taken. Kelly must race to save him before he joins the rest ... in the boneyard. Gagnon's first novel, The Tunnels, described as Silence of the Lambs meets The Wicker Man, involves a series of ritualized murders in the abandoned tunnel system beneath a university.

SIMON WOOD
We All Fall Down
(Leisure, $7.99 paperback original)

Hayden Duke is a young man on the fast track. He's just signed on with Marin Design Engineering to work on a very high-level project. But before Hayden started, one of MDE's employee's committed suicide. And he's not the only one. Is it the pressure? Or is there some other connection? Has Hayden Duke just put himself on the fast track to an early death? Simon Wood is also the author of The Scrubs, Accidents Waiting to Happen, Working Stiffs, and Paying the Piper


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