One of thing that made Thomas Harris’ The Silence Of The Lambs so intriguing was that a criminal helped catch another criminal. But in his new noir crime novel The Moment Before Drowning (hardcover, Kindle), writer James Brydon puts his own spin on this predicament by having a man accused of a crime tasked with solving a murder while awaiting his own trial.
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