Five Knives
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Three Dead.
Five Knives.
FIVE KNIVES welds the intensity of Jack Bauer’s “24” to the scorching heat of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST.
“The author is a great talent.” — Aaron C. Brown, Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer
When a man plummets to his death from an apartment tower, Will Finch’s shock soon becomes a nightmare. As he studies the open windows above the corpse, Finch notices a lamp blinking erratically behind a drawn curtain on the eleventh floor.
When he investigates the distress signal, Finch discovers a woman handcuffed to a bedpost. Over the following week, he uncovers a conspiracy that ties the murder to a series of bombshells. The victim’s bankruptcy. A global stock fraud. A murder spree that began in Baghdad and is now haunting the citizens of San Francisco. Is this the work of a serial killer, a copycat — or both?
But before he can file his report for The San Francisco Post, Finch’s leads evaporate. Within days, three victims are dead. Does a pattern of five knife wounds provide a clue? Can he unravel the mystery before he — and his fiancée — are caught up in the web of murder?
Five Knives is the prequel thriller in the Will Finch crime series — a novel that opens on the first day of Will Finch’s journalism career. Everything that Finch learns about crime reporting begins with Five Knives.
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Dear Reader,
If you're like me, then you love reading novels by Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Nora Roberts, Jeffery Deaver, John Sandford, Philip Kerr, Martin Cruz Smith, Patricia Highsmith, Stieg Larsson, Elmore Leonard and Jo Nesbo. Among many others.
And if you like those writers, then I invite you to have a look at my crime series. You can buy them all — and my four psychological thrillers — on Amazon.
Writing crime fiction isn't always easy, but it's always a thrill. When you read my novels I hope you'll share the buzz, the excitement and the adrenaline rush with me.
Like all writers, I love readers who enjoy my books, especially those who are kind enough to leave a review. Hopefully, you will, too.
Happy reading,
D. F. (Don) Bailey
PS: for more information visit my website, dfbailey.com.
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About the author
In 2015 D. F. (Don) Bailey published The Finch Trilogy — Bone Maker, Stone Eater, and Lone Hunter — three novels narrated from the point-of-view of a crime reporter in contemporary San Francisco. Following the success of the trilogy, Second Life (2017) became the first in a series of stand-alone novels following the characters introduced in the first three books. The series prequel, Five Knives, came out in 2018. The sixth Will Finch novel, Open Chains, was published in the fall of 2019. The newest installment, Run Time, was published in 2020.
His first psychological thriller, Fire Eyes, was a W.H. Smith First Novel Award finalist. His second novel, Healing the Dead, was translated into German as Todliche Ahnungen. The Good Lie (2008) is set in his adopted home town, Victoria. His fourth novel, Exit from America, appeared in 2013.
Following his birth in Montreal, Don’s family moved around North America from rural Ontario to New York City to McComb, Mississippi to Cape May, New Jersey. After years of seeking the ideal place to raise his own family, he says, “I finally landed on my feet on Vancouver Island — where I live next to the Salish Sea in the city of Victoria.”
For twenty-two years he worked at the University of Victoria where he taught creative writing and journalism and coordinated the Professional Writing Cooperative Education Program — which he co-founded. From time to time he also freelanced as a business writer and journalist. In the fall of 2010 Don left the university so that, “I could turn my pre-occupation with writing into a full-blown obsession.”
An Amazon bestselling author, he’s also a ManyBooks.com Book-of-The-Month Award winner and a Whistler Independent Book Award finalist.