Murder plus the abduction of archeology student Mary Beth McConnell in a North Carolina swamp lure quadriplegic New York criminalist Lincoln Rhyme away from his scheduled surgery to find sixteen-year-old “Insect Boy” Garrett Hanlon before he kills Mary Beth in series thriller THE EMPTY CHAIR. With Lincoln’s help, police arrest Garrett, but Lincoln’s partner, Amelia Sachs, believes Garrett is innocent and breaks him out of jail so that he can lead her to Mary Beth. As Lincoln’s mind races to save Amelia, he discovers that there are indeed “many hornets” in Blackwater Landing, and not all of them are insects.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch, categorized by type of fiction, that I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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