One reporter.
Three dead.
Five knives.
Rookie crime reporter Will Finch is chasing the biggest story of his career.
When a man falls to his death from a high-rise apartment tower, it looks like a tragic accident--until Finch spots a flickering lamp from the eleventh floor. A silent signal for help.
Inside the apartment, he finds a woman handcuffed to a bedpost. Her terrified eyes tell him one thing--this was no accident.
As Finch digs deeper, he unearths a conspiracy linking the death to a sudden bankruptcy, a global stock fraud scheme, and a series of murders stretching from Baghdad to San Francisco. Is it the work of a serial killer, a copycat, or something even more sinister?
Then the bodies start piling up. Three more victims. Five knife wounds. And the killer is closing in.
Five Knives is the pulse-pounding prequel to the Will Finch mystery thriller series, a gripping thriller where every lead is a risk--and every truth comes at a deadly price.
___________________________________________________________________
Praise for the Will Finch Mystery Thriller Series:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The story moves quickly and doesn't disappoint.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ He kept digging until he found the killer! Good read!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The story that unfolds is beyond anyone's imagination.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I'm so happy that D.F. Bailey wrote this Prequel to the Will Finch series. Getting a chance to find out more of what make Will tick was a definite winner!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a real page turner.
In 2015 D. F. (Don) Bailey published The Finch Trilogy -- Bone Maker, Stone Eater, Lone Hunter -- three novels narrated from the point-of-view of a crime reporter in contemporary San Francisco.
Following the trilogy's success, Second Life (2017) launched a new saga based on the characters introduced in the first three books. The series prequel, Five Knives, came out in 2018. The Finch chronicle continues with Open Chains (2019), Run Time (2020), and White Sphere (2022).
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 hometown, 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 Mississippi and New Jersey. "After years of seeking the ideal place to live," 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.
- Click the "Follow" button above to receive news about his next novel.
- Sign up for his free new reader book bundle ➜ https: //bit.ly/DFBailey
- Visit his website ➜ https: //dfbailey.com
- Send an email ➜ don@dfbailey.com
