Book Description:

The Hands of Christ is the story of Linda and Dean Burns, an affluent couple with three elementary-age children. Like most of us, they led busy lives, still their marriage was a happy one. But when Linda was injured in an automobile accident their marriage took a new direction. Dean, who owned a construction company, recognized the need to enlarge the company’s business volume to compensate for Linda’s lost income. But as he occupied himself with expanding his business, Linda increasingly implored him to help to maintain the household and take care of their children. Their relationship turned bitter, and neither of them knew how to arrest their marriage’s downward spiral and to prevent its eventual undoing.

Author Biography:

Jon K. Elliott graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He spent a twenty-year career in the navy, and the next twenty years in church construction management, church administration, and commercial construction. The Hands of Christ is his second book. Jon and his wife Barbara live in Lexington, Kentucky.

Book Description:

As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens' job is to make certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments.  But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam's life.  She's pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate--until she receives a peculiar call from Washington, D.C. 

On the other end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy on her son.  Eddie Donovan is officially the victim of a vicious carjacking, but under Sam's sharp eye the forensics tell a darker story.  The ex-Ranger was murdered, though not for his car.

Forced to confront the burning memories and feelings about yet another loved one killed brutally, Sam loses herself in the mystery contained within Donovan's old notes.  Leading her to the untouchable Xander Whitfield, a soldier off-grid since his return from Afghanistan, and then to a series of brutal crimes stretching from that harsh mountainous war zone to this nation's capital, the tale told between the lines makes it clear that nobody's hands are clean, and that making sense of murder sometimes means putting yourself in the crosshairs of death.

Author Biography:

J.T. Ellison is the international award-winning author of seven critically acclaimed novels, multiple short stories and has been published in over twenty countries. A former White House staffer, she has worked extensively with the Metro Nashville Police, the FBI and various other law enforcement organizations to research her novels. She lives in Nashville with her husband and a poorly trained cat, and is hard at work on her next novel. Visit www.JTEllison.com for more insight into her wicked imagination, or follow her on Twitter @Thrillerchick.