Welcome to an exciting announcement!

Together with other bloggers, we have the pleasure of help reveal the acquisition and cover for Where The Bones Lie, a new title by Nick Kolakowski, by Datura Books.

Let's take a look at the blurb:

For Dash Fuller, Hollywood’s underbelly is home sweet home. He’s spent years helping disappear the film industry’s worst secrets, and it’s left him a cynical burnout who loves bourbon a little too much. But when a young woman named Madeline Ironwood comes to him with a peculiar quest, Dash sees a chance at redemption.

Madeline is the daughter of Ken Ironwood, a notorious smuggler and murderer who disappeared 20 years ago. Ken’s skeleton was recently discovered in a barrel at the bottom of a dried-up lake in rural California, and Madeline wants to know who killed him. Dash agrees to help, and as this desperate daughter and jaded cynic claw their way through a world of sun-bleached secrets, crooked cops, and Hollywood thugs, they soon uncover a massive conspiracy involving some of L.A’s most powerful people. Fortunately, Dash knows a little something about unearthing old skeletons, both real and metaphorical… and this isn’t the first time he’s had guns fired at him.

Where The Bones Lie is scheduled for release the March 11th, 2025.

And time for the cover!

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Nick Kolakowski

Nick Kolakowski is the author of several crime novels, including Payback is Forever and Hell of a Mess. His work has been nominated for the Anthony and Derringer awards, and his short story Scorpions appeared in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Mystery Weekly, Shotgun Honey, Mystery Tribune, and more. Nick grew up as a voracious reader of mystery and crime fiction, and his own writing is an attempt to pay homage to the best of the genre while also using it as a lens through which to view our weird, sometimes not-so-wonderful modern life.