A fiendish killer. A clue in code. Officer Emma Thorne’s first big case may just be her last . . . Officer Emma Thorne has her hands full. The mayor makes her the new chief of police—a position previously held by her deceased father. Her clinically depressed husband Will is missing, presumed dead. And her old flame from high school has turned up as a corpse. One dead body would be bad enough, but more quickly follow. The cops dub the killer “Mr. Sharpie,” named for the strange messages written in marker on the victims’ remains. Are the scrawled numbers and letters clues to the killer’s identity? Or merely the deranged behavior of a sick mind? The pressure is on Emma to find out. . . When a cryptic text message leads Emma to suspect her husband is still alive, the case quickly becomes personal. And as more killings rock her small Connecticut town, Emma realizes the grisly bodies all have one thing in common: they’re all connected to her. Leaving Emma to wonder . . . will she become a suspect in this gruesome series of murders? Or the next victim . . . Ever So Silent is a gleefully diabolical mystery riddled with twists and turns you won’t see coming. Fans of Mark Edwards, Lisa Gray, and Kendra Elliot will love this darkly humorous police procedural. Dive into a new mystery series featuring a sarcastic but likable detective and her loyal police dog, Pepper. Meet Emma Thorne today**. . .** What Amazon/Goodreads reviewers are saying: • “Un-put-downable.” • “Rollicky, twisty plot.” • “What an extraordinary book.” • “Urgent and exciting writing.” • “You definitely won’t be disappointed!” • “Thrilling mystery.”
Author
* Author of Shooting the Breeze: Memories of a Photojournalist, November, 2024. Available on Amazon. * Author of Ever So Silent: An Emma Thorne Mystery, Honeysuckle Publishing, May, 2019. * Freelance Photojournalist. Little’s photographs have been published in most major magazines and newspapers including People, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Journal, Esquire, GQ, Forbes, Money, Business Week, Self, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Progressive Architecture, House Beautiful, House & Garden, TV Guide, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, McCalls, Town & Country, The New York Times Magazine, Cruising World, National Geographic World, Stern, Bunte, Paris Match. * Photographer of over 300 magazine and book covers. * Selected Books: * Photographer of Fallingwater. Rizzoli Classics, 2016. Edited by Lynda Waggoner. From Bookcritics.com: “I must comment specifically on the photography. Christopher Little’s photographs capture this work in views that it would take us many many visits to accumulate and he provides perspectives and details not previously shown, (or at least not shown so beautifully) views that invite us to see more deeply ... Brilliant! Masterful!” * Photographer of Atlantic High, a sailing book, with William F. Buckley, Jr. Doubleday, Fall, 1982. The New York Times Book Review Section called the book ‘‘stunning to look at.’’ It was on the Times’ bestseller list for seventeen weeks. * Photographer of Elegant New York: The Builders and The Buildings, 1885-1915, an architecture book with John Tauranac. Abbeville Press, Fall, 1985. * Principal photographer of Fallingwater with Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.—an architecture book celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright house. Abbeville Press, Fall, 1986. The Boston Globe called the book ‘‘the loveliest picture book in years.’’ The Wall Street Journal called the photographs ‘‘superb.’’ Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic of the New York Times, wrote this in the Book Review Section: "The book contains the finest photographs I have seen of this much-photographed Pennsylvania house . . . The expansive views by Christopher Little alone are sufficient to thrust Mr. Little into the front rank of contemporary architectural photographers." * Author and photographer of The Rockbound Coast—Travels in Maine, a travel memoir about a summer spent cruising the coast of Maine. W.W. Norton, July, 1994. * Education: Yale, B.A. in Psychology, 1971, The Hotchkiss School, 1967, The Buckley School, 1963. * Personal: Born 24 March 1949. Married to Elizabeth Colt Kittredge. Father of Eliza, grandfather of Charlotte.
