DEATH STEALS A HOLY BOOK Set for September Release

Husband-and-wife mystery novelists Rosemary and Larry Mild unveil their third Dan and Rivka Sherman Mystery with the release of Death Steals A Holy Book. Death Steals A Holy Book will be published in trade paper (ISBN 978-0-9905472-0-4, 243 pages, $14.95) and eBook editions on September 1, 2016.

About Death Steals A Holy Book: Reluctant sleuths Dan and Rivka Sherman yearn for a tranquil life as the owners of The Olde Victorian Bookstore in Annapolis, Maryland. But when the Shermans acquire a rare volume, they find themselves embroiled in a firestorm of deceit, thievery, and violence.

Israel Finestein, renowned restorer of old books in Baltimore, has just finished his work on the Menorat ha-maor, "The Candlestick of Light." His life is brutally snuffed out and the book disappears. What makes this rare text so valuable that someone is compelled to kill for it? Two Baltimore detectives find a puzzling number of suspects. Is it the controversial woman whom Israel plans to marry? The rare book agent who overextended himself in the stock market? Israel's busybody cousins who resent his changed lifestyle? Or the wayward lad who thinks a gun is the way to big bucks? This mystery could be one for the books.

A tightly woven, cleverly plotted and supremely suspenseful tale, Death Steals A Holy Book is centered on a factual work, "The Candlestick of Light." Originally written in Hebrew in the 14th century, it flourished as a moral and religious household guide for Jewish families in the Middle Ages. The 18th century Yiddish translation depicted in Death Steals A Holy Book was actually inherited by author Larry Mild and inspired him to create the plot for this richly drawn mystery. Resplendent with action, intrigue, wit, and a to-die-for cast of characters, Death Steals A Holy Book is bound to delight.

Death Steals A Holy Book follows the first two Dan and Rivka mysteries: Death Goes Postal and Death Takes A Mistress.

Rosemary and Larry have published award-winning novels, short stories, and essays. They coauthored the popular Paco and Molly Mystery Series and Cry Ohana, a thriller set in Hawaii, as well as stories in anthologies. Members of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Hawaii Fiction Writers, they now call Honolulu home.