The Devil's Snare

Some Mysteries Lie Still in Shallow Graves Over 100,000 copies of the Derek Cole Thriller Series have been read worldwide. Following the top-selling Heartless and Still Heartless novels, Derek Cole is back in a thriller, filled with twists and turns and a mystery that will keep you guessing until the final pages. People are dying in the small, upstate New York town of Ravenswood. There's madness at work; making people do things they normally would never do. Private Investigator Derek Cole believed he was working a case involving arson and a double manslaughter but quickly discovers that a terrible secret is being held in Ravenswood. And for some, secrets are worth killing for.. "Derek Cole is a character worth getting to know and Phelps is an author well worth paying attention to. Brilliant!" Author James Fletcher "Mr. Phelps has a talent for drawing the reader in and creating a tense, emotionally charged and exciting atmosphere that certainly kept me on the edge of my seat." L. Collins-Amazon Top 500 Reviewer "Derek Cole at His Absolute Best" Private Investigator Derek Cole, no stranger to difficult cases, takes on the case of Bo Randall, a volunteer fire fighter accused of arson. But the fire his client is accused of starting didn't just burn a house to the ground; it killed two people. Now Cole and his team must unravel the twisted mystery behind the fire, uncover the secret the town of Ravenswood is keeping. But some in the town will do anything to keep the mystery as quiet as a grave. And that gave, shallow and unmarked, may contain an even greater secret.