New Version of Mystery Novel Just for Bookshops

The mystery novel, "Death in the Holler: Bookshop Version," is now available to many brick-and-mortar bookstores worldwide through IngramSpark. This new release of the book was created especially for walk-in bookstores, big and small. The author, John G. Bluck, is a resident of Livermore, Calif. The new version of the book was released May 6.

Your local bookshop can order paperback copies at a generous discount. The books are also "returnable," which means that if all the books don't sell, the store can return them, reducing risk to small business people.

This new version includes questions for book discussion groups (book clubs) and a cover with a slightly different color scheme than the original edition.

If you'd like to see this mystery in your local store, let its owner know about it. Details storekeepers want to have include the new ISBN number: 978-1-7371360-0-2, and size, 8.5 X 5.5 inches.

The original "Death in the Holler" is still available at many on-line book vendors in paperback as well as locally at Towne Center bookstores in Pleasanton and Livermore.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK:

Kentucky Game Warden Luke Ryder is an alcoholic, and his boss intends to fire him. On the first day of muzzle-loader hunting season, someone shoots a Latino man dead on a farm’s food plot.
Why did the murdered man, a Louisville gangster, come to the remote holler? Who slew him? County Sheriff Jim Pike, Ryder’s only friend, asks him to help find the answers.
Ryder believes solving this crime may save his job. And Pike offers to hire him as a deputy, if he can quit drinking.

“For Southern murder mystery fans. . . . (this novel) will hit a bullseye .. . . Murder, gangs, and black-market marijuana run rampant in this testosterone filled thriller. . . . And the mystery itself is twisty, with multiple potential suspects and motives . . . . Great for fans of: James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux Series, Brian Panowich’s Like Lions.” –BookLife Reviews, in the Jan. 11, 2021 issue of Publishers Weekly.

“This writing is reminiscent of another crime novelist of some note, Joseph Wambaugh.” –Mark Tarte, retired police sergeant and Administrator of Justice Instructor at Las Positas College.

“So Good You’ll Want to Holler . . . Bluck deftly juggles a complex plot. . . His descriptions of the setting make me feel I was right there in the Holler.” –Michael A. Black, author of thirty-six books and a retired, decorated police officer who worked in the south suburbs of Chicago.