CFBA: Less Than Dead by Tim Downs

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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing:


Less Than Dead


by


Tim DownsThomas Nelson (September 9, 2008)


MY TAKE:

I loved, loved, loved this book! Once I got started, I couldn't put it down. It has great characterization. Nick Polchak is the kind of character that you can relate to. Or at least I could. My inner nerd loved that he was confident in who he was, despite his lack of hunky good looks. A bug man that preferred creepy crawlys over humans - most of the time. :) The Witch of Endor easily became a fav as well. I kind of half expected a Bones kind of book, something like Kathy Reichs would write, but Tim Downs is definitely his own man, and I'm super happy about that. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.

ABOUT THE BOOK:


Some secrets just won't stay buried.
When strange bones surface on a U.S. senator's property, the FBI enlists forensic entomologist Nick Polchak to investigate the forgotten graveyard. Polchak's orders are simple: figure out the mess.

But Polchak, known as the "Bug Man" because of his knowledge of insects and their interaction with the dead, senses darker secrets buried beneath the soil.

Secrets that could derail the senator's presidential bid.

Secrets buried in the history of a quaint Virginia town.

Secrets someone is willing to kill to protect.

With the help of a mysterious local woman named Alena and her uncanny cadaver dogs, Polchak sets out to dig up the truth.

But with a desperate killer hot on his trail, he'll be lucky to wind up anything less than dead.


If you would like to read the first chapter of Less Than Dead, go HERE


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tim Downs is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University. After graduation in 1976 he created a comic strip, Downstown, which was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate until 1986. His cartooning has appeared in more than a hundred major newspapers worldwide.

His first book, a work of non-fiction, was awarded the Gold Medallion Award in 2000. His first novel, Shoofly Pie, was awarded the Angel Award in 2004, and his third novel, PlagueMaker, was awarded the Christy Award for best suspense novel of 2007. First The Dead, the third book in this Bug Man series came out earlier this year.

Tim lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife Joy.