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More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel -- a collaboration that combines the skills of America's greatest storytellers to produce a gripping, spellbinding mystery.
"The lineup of writers who have contributed to this mystery is akin to the Murderers' Row of the 1927 New York Yankees. There is not a weak spot in the bunch."
--David Baldacci, from the Introduction
Alexander McCall Smith. Sandra Brown. Faye Kellerman. J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver. Kathy Reichs. Lisa Scottoline. Jeff Lindsay. These are only a handful of the names that make up the all-star lineup of authors behind No Rest for the Dead , a tale of vengeance, greed, and love that flows seamlessly, in the words of David Baldacci, "as it passes from one creator's mind to the next."
When Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San Francisco's McFall Art Museum, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in a Berlin museum, his wife, Rosemary, is the primary suspect, and she is tried, convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was put to death. In the years since the case was closed, he's discovered a web of deceit and betrayal surrounding the Thomases that could implicate any number of people in the crime. With the help of the dead woman's friend, he plans to gather everyone who was there the night Christopher died and finally uncover the truth, suspect by suspect. Solving this case may be Nunn's last chance for redemption & but the shadowy forces behind Christopher's death will stop at nothing to silence the past forever.
In this innovative storytelling approach, each of these twenty-five bestselling writers brings their distinctive voice to a chapter of the narrative, building the tension to a shocking, explosive finale. No Rest for the Dead is a thrilling, page-turning accomplishment that only America's very best authors could achieve.
From the Introduction of No Rest for the Dead :
There is always that case, the one that keeps me awake at night, the one that got away. It'll always be there, gnawing at the edges of my mind. It doesn't matter that ten years have passed, it doesn't matter that the case is officially closed. An innocent woman was executed, I was the one who helped make it happen, and on the sad night when the needle was inserted into her arm, injecting her with death, part of my life ended too.
It never felt right, never made sense. Sure, there was motive and opportunity, there was the physical evidence. But if you met her, if you knew her the way I got to know her . . . It wasn't until later, after I'd taken a step back from the case, that I realized it had angles I hadn't seen, layers I hadn't uncovered, back when it mattered, back when I could have saved her&.
With contributions from:
David Baldacci (Introduction)
Jeff Lindsay
Alexander McCall Smith
Jonathan Santlofer
Sandra Brown
Faye Kellerman
Kathy Reichs
Benjamin Kelly
John Lescroart
T. Jefferson Parker
Gayle Lynds
Matthew Pearl
J.A. Jance
Michael Palmer
Marcia Talley
P. D. James
Diana Gabaldon
Philip Margolin
Tess Gerritsen
Katherine Neville
Lisa Scottoline
R.L. Stine
Jeffery Deaver
Laurie H. Armstrong
Brian Gruley
Robert Dugoni
Author Notes
Sandra Brown began her writing career in 1980. After selling her first book, she wrote a succession of romance novels under several pseudonyms, most of which remain in print. She has become one of the country's most popular novelists, earning the notice of Hollywood and of the critics. More than 60 of her books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. There are eighty million copies of her books in print, and her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Prior to writing, she worked in commercial television as an on-air personality for PM Magazine and local news in Dallas. The parents of two, she and her husband now divide their time between homes in Texas and South Carolina.
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Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Twenty-six of the best-known names in the business-including Jeffery Deaver, Faye Kellerman, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Thomas H. Cook, and Lisa Scottoline-contribute chapters to this modestly entertaining "who-really-done-it." In 2000, museum curator Rosemary Thomas is executed in California for the murder of her philandering curator husband, whose decomposing corpse was found in an iron maiden shipped from the U.S. to Germany. Police detective Jon Nunn helped convict Thomas, but a decade later he's sure of her innocence and sets out to catch the real culprit by using her request for a memorial service as an opportunity to convene a roster of alternate suspects with a slew of motives. While many readers will enjoy the inventive changes of plot direction and seeing how the next author will deal with them, others may feel a similarity of tone and style is less a sign of creative minds in sync than of bland homogenization. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
An all-star lineup of contributors is behind this mystery novel, which is not merely good for a book written by committee but is simply very good. The first third of the story takes place in 1998; a woman's husband, a philandering art-museum curator, has been killed in a very creative manner, and the woman is tried and executed for the crime. The remainder of the story takes place today. Someone is planning a memorial service in the woman's (not the victim's) memory, and the people who were involved in the '98 case including the dead man's former lover; a friend of his accused killer; and Jon Nunn, the detective whose testimony put the woman away find that this old murder case didn't die when the alleged killer did. It's a compelling mystery with a cast of equally compelling characters (the emotionally scarred Nunn is a standout). The story works so well that you'd swear the contributors among them Jeffery Deaver, Diane Gabaldon, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Palmer, Marcus Sakey, Kathy Reichs, John Lescroart, Jeff Lindsay, and Tess Gerritsen all sat around a table and plotted the book down to its last detail. That wasn't the case, but it's a solid mystery nonetheless. Here's one committee that can get something done and done right.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist
