Bluetick Revenge

- Mark Cohen's debut novel, "The Fractal Murders, was originally self-published and was chosen as a Book Sense 76 Top 10 Mystery in 2002 and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Mysterious Press published a revised hardcover edition in 5/04. The book has received terrific reviews from "Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Dallas Morning News, and the "Santa Fe New Mexican.- Cohen's experience as a former JAG and municipal judge in Boulder, Colorado, gives his novels a terrific insider's perspective. His writing has also appeared in various magazines, including "Inside Kung Fu and "Camping & RV Magazine.

- Mark Cohen's debut novel, "The Fractal Murders, was originally self-published and was chosen as a Book Sense 76 Top 10 Mystery in 2002 and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Mysterious Press published a revised hardcover edition in 5/04. The book has received terrific reviews from "Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Dallas Morning News, and the "Santa Fe New Mexican.- Cohen's experience as a former JAG and municipal judge in Boulder, Colorado, gives his novels a terrific insider's perspective. His writing has also appeared in various magazines, including "Inside Kung Fu and "Camping & RV Magazine.

Publishers Weekly

Despite the lack of the underlying complex concept (fractal geometry) and the philosophical ponderings that distinguished Cohen's debut, The Fractal Murders (2004), this solid follow-up shows appealing new facets of rugged Colorado sleuth Pepper Keane. Keane's old law firm hires him to dognap a champion bluetick coonhound belonging to Karlynn Slade, the estranged wife of the unsavory leader of an outlaw biker gang, as well as to baby-sit Karlynn until she can enter a federal witness protection program. The job gets harder when Karlynn disappears; dicier when her biker husband hires Keane to find her; and deadlier when her trail intersects with one bearing the scent of an unsolved murder from Keane's past. Many of the intriguing characters who assisted Keane previously reappear, including his love interest, math professor Jane Smyers, and his friend and martial arts mentor, Scott McCutcheon. Though Keane makes some difficult choices in morally ambiguous situations, his encounters with bikers, skinheads and survivalists leave little time for the kind of rumination that made The Fractal Murders so distinctive. Agent, Sandra Bond. (July 20) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

A former JAG and now one of two municipal judges in Boulder, Colorado, Mark Cohen's writing has appeared in magazines that include Inside Kung Fu and Camping & RV. THE FRACTAL MURDERS was his first novel.