Congratulations to P.J. Lee, whose fast-paced thriller “The Flies of August” is burning up the Amazon Kindle charts. We meet rookie detective Donna Bradley, who has been assigned to search for a teenage runaway. The girl?s parents are mysteriously evasive. The story explodes when a wealthy insurance executive is found gutted with a garden tool amid his rhododendrons. There are plenty of twists and turns that will keep you turning the pages!

Reviewers on Amazon have compared P.J. Lee to the likes of Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, John Sandford, and J.D. Robb, which is high praise. The author grew up in South Africa, where he trained and worked as a journalist. He lived in England before moving to Connecticut in 2004, where “The Flies of August” is set. His first novel “Discards,” published by Penguin in South Africa in 2002, was named one of the best three SA books of the year by the Johannesburg Star.

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