The McFall Art Museum in San Francisco, California was well-
known for its collection of modern art. The museum's chief
curator, Christopher Thomas, however, was known for his
wife's contribution to his career. It was widely known
among the museum that Christopher owed his prestigious
career at the McFall to his wife, Rosemary. Rosemary's
money and connections helped create a name and reputation
both for Christopher and the McFall. But when Christopher
is found dead after a very public argument with his wife,
she is convicted of his murder and executed.
Cop Jon Nunn thought Rosemary's execution finally put
Christopher Thomas' murder to rest, but years after the
execution doubts begin to haunt him. Nunn's belief in his
role in helping to execute an innocent woman plunge him
into a destructive life of drinking, losing both his wife
and career. The evidence against Rosemary seemed
concrete. After Christopher's decomposed body was found in
an eighteenth-century torture device in Berlin, strands of
Rosemary's hair and a button from one of her blouses
appeared with the body. But ten years after Rosemary
Thomas' execution, Nunn begins to discover who Christopher
Thomas really was leading him to believe that Rosemary was
cleverly set up by the real murderer.
Thomas' brilliant career as senior curator was a façade for
his more sinister dealings. As Jon Nunn begins to look past
Christopher's job at The McFall, he discovers that the
curator had a sundry of enemies, included two very jilted
mistresses. But Thomas' faults were not just limited to
adultery -- stealing and replacing priceless works of art
was a regular part of Christopher's job as curator.
Christopher Thomas felt compelled to steal from his
employer in order to pay off dangerous enemies who watched
his every move.
Ten years after Rosemary's Thomas' execution, her will
stipulated that a memorial service be held for her at The
McFall Art Museum. Although no longer a cop, Jon Nunn is
determined to attend the memorial where he is convinced the
real murderer will be. But the memorial service will reveal
more than what really happened to Christopher Thomas. The
truth about Thomas' death will shock even the most astute
mystery novel reader.
NO REST FOR THE DEAD begins with a challenge: try and guess
the identity of the murderer. The novel is the work of
twenty-six widely acclaimed authors. Each author
contributes his own brand of writing resulting in an
addictive mystery that is sure to have readers talking. As
a reader of Agatha Christie and other mystery novels, I
have found that most authors have a pattern when it comes
to picking the murderer. The identity can usually be
guessed by a series of clues. However, clues will get you
nowhere in this brilliantly written novel. NO REST FOR THE
DEAD is a complete original. Once you begin reading this
mystery, you will not rest until you discover what really
happened to Christopher Thomas.
More than twenty New York Times bestselling
authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel -- a
collaboration that combines the skills of America’s greatest
storytellers to produce a gripping, spellbinding mystery.
“The lineup of writers who have contributed to this
mystery is akin to the Murderers’ Row of the 1927 New York
Yankees. There is not a weak spot in the bunch.”
—David Baldacci, from the Introduction
Alexander McCall Smith. Sandra Brown. Faye Kellerman.
J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver. Kathy Reichs. Lisa Scottoline.
Jeff Lindsay. These are only a handful of the names
thatmake up the all-star lineup of authors behindNo Rest for the Dead, a tale ofvengeance,
greed, and love that flows seamlessly,in the words
of David Baldacci, “as it passes fromone creator's
mind to the next.”
When Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San
Francisco’s McFall Art Museum, is murdered and his decaying
body is found in an iron maiden in a Berlin museum, his
wife, Rosemary, is the primary suspect, and she is tried,
convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the
detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong
person was put to death. In the years since the case was
closed, he's discovered a web of deceit and betrayal
surrounding the Thomases that could implicate any number of
people in the crime. With the help of the dead woman's
friend, he plans to gather everyone who was there the night
Christopher died and finally uncover the truth, suspect by
suspect. Solving this case may be Nunn’s last chance for
redemption … but the shadowy forces behind Christopher’s
death will stop at nothing to silence the past forever.
In this innovative storytelling approach, each of these
twenty-five bestselling writers brings their distinctive
voice to a chapter of the narrative, building the tension to
a shocking, explosive finale. No Restfor the Dead
is a thrilling, page-turning accomplishment that only
America’s very best authors could achieve.
From the Introduction of No Rest for the Dead:
There is always that case, the one that keeps me awake
at night, the one that got away. It’ll always be there,
gnawing at the edges of my mind. It doesn’t matter that ten
years have passed, it doesn’t matter that the case is
officially closed. An innocent woman was executed, I was the
one who helped make it happen, and on the sad night when the
needle was inserted into her arm, injecting her with death,
part of my life ended too.
It never felt right, never made sense. Sure, there
was motive and opportunity, there was the physical evidence.
But if you met her, if you knew her the way I got to know
her . . . It wasn’t until later, after I’d taken a step back
from the case, that I realized it had angles I hadn’t seen,
layers I hadn’t uncovered, back when it mattered, back when
I could have saved her….
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