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Michael Prescott

Riptide is now available for sale at CreateSpace for $16.95.

Amazon.com sells the printed book for the same price.

Amazon also sells the Kindle (ebook) edition for only $3.99.

Please note that the Kindle price has been dropped substantially (from the original price of $9.99). I'm still learning the basics of the ebook business, and it's become clear to me that readers expect books in this format to be much cheaper than print editions.

Also note that Kindle books can be read on the iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android phones, using a free app. They can also be read directly on your computer (again, using a free app).

Okay, with the dollars and sense details out of the way, what what is Riptide about?

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Jennifer Silence reads between the lines. A psycholinguistic analyst, she studies documents written by murderers, teasing out hidden clues. But nothing in her life has prepared her for the document that is now in her hands. A leather-bound diary from a crumbling crypt.

The diary of Jack the Ripper.

If it is genuine, it suggests a troubling connection between Jennifer's family and history's most infamous serial killer. A connection that may explain her father's suicide ... and her brother's mental illness. A connection that may implicate her brother in a new rash of killings, and prove that the Ripper's spirit still prowls dark streets and alleys, taking lives ...

And the next victim may be Jennifer herself.

Want to read a preview? The first two chapters are online.

Tess came face-to-face with Faust once before - and discovered the true meaning of evil. But both she and Abby have even more to learn. Because another series of murders has been uncovered ... because the stalker is no ordinary vigilante ... and because Faust has one more sin in which he has yet to indulge. And one final victim on his mind.

"Michael Prescott is a master of suspense." - The Daily Oklahoman

Purchase Final Sins from Amazon.com.

Here's the advertising copy from the back cover:

BAD BLOOD ...

A private operative, Abby Sinclair stalks the stalkers and takes them down. Her new client is a U.S. congressman shadowed by a mystery woman believed to be a disgruntled ex-employee. He wants her stopped. What Abby doesn't know is that FBI special agent Tess McCallum is already on the case - and back in her life - partnered with her in a deadly new game after the two vowed never to work again.

... RUNS DEEP

But the case takes one surprising turn after another, because there's more to the story than anyone knows, including a notorious double murder that reaches twenty years into the past, shaded in long-held lies, guilt, and betrayal. Now its secrets have triggered a new crime - one that will pit Tess and Abby against each other and could cost Abby her freedom ... or her life.

"Prescott is a master at the thriller genre." - The Romance Readers Connection

"Stunning ... Prescott has created two of the fiercest and most commanding heroines to come along in a while... Simply fascinating ... Highly recommended." - New Mystery Reader Magazine

Order Mortal Faults from Amazon.com.

Dangerous Games brings back two of my characters from previous thrillers - freelance security consultant Abby Sinclair from The Shadow Hunter, and FBI special agent Tess McCallum from Next Victim. The two must (reluctantly) team up to track down the Rain Man, a vicious kidnapper who hides his victims in the labyrinthine storm drains of Los Angeles, leaving them to drown in the rain-flooded tunnels unless their ransom is paid in time.

For Abby and Tess, working together isn't easy. Trusting each other is even harder. But they must brave the darkness of the Rain Man's underworld if his next victim is to see daylight again....

Publishers Weekly writes:

"As in many of Prescott's previous books, this psychologically complex thriller features a serial killer who's all the more terrifying because of his basic ordinariness; he's Everyman, twisted. The two protagonists are familiar, too: maverick FBI special agent Tess McCallum (nicknamed "Super Fed" by an adoring media) from Next Victim, and even more freewheeling freelance security agent Abby Sinclair from The Shadow Hunter. The two stubbornly independent women make a compelling, if unlikely, team. While the killer's identity is no secret—he's a vicious kidnapper known as the 'Rain Man' who leaves his victims in storm drains to drown unless their ransom is paid on time—Prescott's flair for unexpected plot twists keeps the suspense breathtakingly high to the last chapter. Why does the Rain Man insist on payment from the city of Los Angeles, instead of victims' families? How can he have access to so much insider info without inside help? Will the two loner agents stop the killer before offing each other? The likable protagonists and Prescott's tightly wound plot keep the reader hooked and guessing—and hoping for another matchup of these two heroines, should they survive."

"Seamless prose, gripping drama, and a blockbuster conclusion." - The Daily Oklahoman

"Fans of psychological thrillers can never go wrong with Prescott ... Thoroughly absorbing." - Roundtable Reviews

I attended Wesleyan University, majoring in Film Studies, then moved to Los Angeles, where I wrote scripts for several independent producers. Only one of these films was produced. I also worked as a magazine freelancer, archival researcher, and editor, and eventually started writing books. I wrote a few horror novels (best forgotten) under a long-defunct name, then authored six titles under the pseudonym Brian Harper before switching to my new identity as Michael Prescott.

My first Michael Prescott novel, Comes the Dark, grew out of my interest in ancient religion and mythology. I followed up with Stealing Faces, which made its debut as an electronic book and became the bestselling e-book in the U.S., and The Shadow Hunter, which was praised by Publishers Weekly for its "brilliant elements of psychological horror." Publishers Weekly also had kind words for Last Breath ("a chilling, character-driven tale") and Next Victim ("unrelentingly suspenseful"). In Dark Places was called a "dark, compulsive read" (Publishers Weekly), a "gripping new drama" (Cemetary Dance), and "hard to predict and thoroughly absorbing ... Michael Prescott at his best" (Round Table Reviews).

Posed shot of the Cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad