California Author Dave Freedland Promotes His Mystery Thriller - The Pepper Tree
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LOS ANGELES - Californer -- A Southern California landmark primarily known only to law enforcement earned a reputation for crime scenes of the most unspeakably vicious homicides. Infamous serial killers had chosen this location to discard and display their victims as trophies of their horrific deeds. Lieutenant Scott Hunter must lead a team of detectives to identify and capture a perpetrator who's targeting young women, and has chosen this landmark to showcase his victims.

This story is a work of fiction, but the Orange County location is real. So notorious, in fact, that those officers working the graveyard shift need only radio their activity at a site bearing two words, and they are immediately dispatched a back-up officer to the "pepper tree."

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As a young patrol officer, Hunter had been introduced to the "terror at the tree" on an evening when he turned his police cruiser down that dusty road separating asparagus fields, and discovered a corpse hanging from a low-hanging limb. But now as the leader of the Robbery/Homicide team, he received that most dreaded call interrupting the stillness of the night, a body dump.

The Pepper Tree is available for purchase in print and ebook formats. For more information about the book and author, please visit bookbuzz.net/blog/mystery-thriller-the-pepper-tree-by-dave-freedland/

Book Information:
The Pepper Tree
By Dave Freedland
Publisher: Aakenbaaken & Kent
ISBN: 978-1938436703
ASIN: B07P277415
Pages: 296
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Police Procedural

Contact:
Website: https://www.davefreedland.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/davefreedland

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