Frederick Weisel’s debut novel, The Silenced Women: A Violent Crime Investigations Team Mystery, was published by Poisoned Pen Press in February 2021. It’s the first in a new police procedural series set in Northern California and featuring a team of five police homicide investigators. The second novel in the series, The Day He Left, will be published in February 2022. The story brings back the same five detectives for a missing person’s case. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and Booklist praised its “many luscious passages” and called it “a beguiling mix of literature and crime.”
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