Fans of mystery novels, there’s a new book available, and it has a local connection.
Fresno attorney James A. Ardaiz, former presiding justice of the California Fifth District Court of Appeal, has made his debut as a mystery novelist with Fractured Justice, which launches this month with a book signing on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m. at A Book Barn in Clovis.
Copies of the book (paperback, 354 pages, $16.95) will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
Fractured Justice is fiction, but it draws from Ardaiz’s decades of experience as a prosecutor and judge. In the book, protagonist Matt Jamison, an assistant district attorney, is confronted by a meticulously staged crime scene—a dead woman, carefully scrubbed of all forensic evidence, laid out on a canal bank in Jamison’s rural Central California county. A serial killer is on the loose and adept at hiding his tracks. And before the murderer can be brought to justice, Jamison will lose his illusions about what justice means.
Fractured Justice is the first in a series of novels to feature Matt Jamison; Ardaiz plans to release his next novel in 2018. Buy the book on Amazon, Target.com, or at Quill Driver Books.
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