VJ Books Announces New York Times Bestselling Author Thomas Perry as Author of the Month

March 6, 2012 - PRLog -- Bestselling mystery and thriller writer Thomas Perry is at the top of his game with the release of his seventh Jane Whitefield novel, Poison Flower.  Breathtaking and with unrelenting action, Poison Flower is sure to please.  

About Poison Flower

Poison Flower opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife’s murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby’s freedom is high. Within minutes men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her.

Jane’s captors are employees of the man who killed Shelby’s wife and framed him for the crime. The killer believes he won’t be safe until Shelby is dead, and his men will do anything to force Jane to reveal where Shelby is hiding. But Jane endures their torment, and is willing to die rather than betray Shelby. Jane escapes but she is alone, wounded, weak, and in pain, thousands of miles from home with no money and no identification, hunted by the police as well as her captors. She must rejoin Shelby, reach his sister before the hunters do, and get them both to safety.

Jane is caught in a waking nightmare, as many of the pursuers Jane has eluded for years gather to bid for her in a multimillion- dollar auction. The winning bidder buys the chance to tear from Jane’s memory the names and addresses of all those she has helped disappear and begin new lives.

Praise for Poison Flower

“Tour de force…pure, adrenaline-fueled plot.”  *Starred Review, Kirkus

“Exciting. . .” Publisher’s Weekly

About Thomas Perry

Thomas Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York in 1947.  He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester in 1974. He has been a laborer, maintenance man, commercial fisherman, weapons mechanic, university administrator and teacher, and television writer and producer (Simon and Simon, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation).  Perry is the author of 20 novels including the Jane Whitefield series and the Butcher’s Boy series.

Perry won the Edgar for The Butcher’s Boy, and Metzger’s Dog was a New York Times Notable Book. The Independent Mystery Booksellers’ Association included Vanishing Act in its “100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century,” and Nightlife was a New York Times bestseller.  Strip was chosen as a New York Times Notable Crime Book for 2010, and The Informant was a New York Times Notable Crime Book for 2011.

Perry lives in Southern California.

Thomas Perry Book List

The Butcher’s Boy Series includes: The Butcher’s Boy (1982), Sleeping Dogs (1992), and The Informant (2011).

The Jane Whitefield Series includes:  Vanishing Act (1995), Dance for the Dead (1996), Shadow Woman (1997), The Face-Changers (1998), Blood Money (1999), Runner (2009), and Poison Flower (2012).

Perry’s other novels include:  Metzger’s Dog (1983), Big Fish (1985), Island (1987), Death Benefits (2001), Pursuit (2001), Dead Aim (2002), Nightlife (2006), Silence (20077), Fidelity (2008), and Strip (2010).

Signed 1st editions of Poison Flower and other Thomas Perry bestselling novels are available at VJ Books (http://www.vjbooks.com).

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