NEXT kill
ISBN 13: 9780981999319
ISBN 10: 098199931x
Thriller Publishing Group, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2010 by Aaron Trance
Trade Paperback Original
March 15, 2010
420 pages
$13.95 USA
Thriller/Detective/Mystery/Suspense
Distribution: Baker & Taylor, Brodarts, Bookhouse, Blackwells, Folletts, etc.
Back Cover Copy: In a frantic chase unsanctioned by both his chief and by Japanese authorities, San Francisco homicide detective Trane Ravenwood hunts the streets of Tokyo for a unstoppable killer whose wake of terror has cut across three continents and is now entering Japan. As Ravenwood desperately tries to stop the next kill before it happens, he and a young Tokyo woman find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a deadly game mysterioiusly rooted in a secret past.
Trane Ravenwood is introduced in Next Kill and will come back as the main protagonist for several books. Here's an excerpt from the book that describes him:
FRIDAY NIGHT AFTER DARK, Trane Ravenwood—the 33-year-old head of San Francisco’s Homicide Detail—had his garage door open. Inside that garage was a beat up, lime-green ’70 Hemi Cuda, with a dusty 6-pack shaker hood pointed towards the street and an empty space where the battery should be. Ravenwood sat behind the wheel, drinking his second Coors Light and watching a violent thunderstorm pound Baker Street and suffocate the city lights.
He had the seat pushed back to give his six-foot-three, Tarzan-like body room to stretch.
He was 1/8 Apache but didn’t show it much except for the slightly higher cheekbones, the one-shade-darker skin, and the thick raven-black mane of hair that cascaded halfway down his back; always loose, never in a ponytail. A short scar from a bullet sat just above his right eyebrow, barely perceptible. His eyes were sky-blue, the color of a wolf’s, framed in a face that would be equally at home on a magazine cover or in a fight.
On his back, just below his neck, was a black tattoo about six inches long that said in Apache, “The one you feed.” When he was ten his father told him, “In each of us there are two powers, always at war with each other. One is evil, like a rabid wolf, always quick to kill and devour your spirit. The other is good, like an eagle, always lifting you on its wings. The battle between them will rage inside you until one of them wins.”
"Which one will win?" Trane asked.
His father looked into the distance, then back, and said, “The one you feed.”
He died six years later, when Trane was sixteen.
Trane got the tattoo a month later.
It marked the day he took over the responsibility of being the man of the house, with three sisters and two brothers beneath him.
That was a lifetime ago, but he still looked at the tattoo every day.
********************************************************************************
The second kill thriller is DEJA kill, coming September 15, 2010.
DEJA kill
ISBN 13: 9780981999333
Thriller Publishing Group, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2010 by Aaron Trance
Trade Paperback Original
September 15, 2010
420 pages
$13.95 USA
Thriller/Detective/Mystery/Suspense
Distribution: Baker & Taylor, Brodarts, Bookhouse, Blackwells, Folletts, etc.
Back cover copy: San Francisco homicide detective Trane Ravenwood has always lived on the edge. He discovers just how easy it is to fall off that edge in Aaron Trance's electrifying new thriller, Deja Kill.
While searching for a friend who has abruptly vanished in Bangkok, Ravenwood wanders into the city's seedy, lust-drunk Soi Cowboy district on a steamy neon night. What happens next sends him scrambling for his life and propels him into a modern-day thriller connected to a time long forgotten.
