New Releases
Holding Back the Dark
Acting Sheriff Bill Lattimore and Homicide Sergeant Reggie Nelson are joined by FBI Special Agent and profiler, Charlotte Rhodes, to pursue a killer who slices his way ever more cruelly and frantically through multiple victims during the weeks and months following the initial murders in Las Vegas. Read more…
Little Wars
The brutal murder of a family, including three small children, initially thought to be a murder-suicide, becomes the obsessive focus of the local sheriff, Ned Logan, after he detects evidence that is inconsistent with the “obvious” conclusion. Read more…
Unheard Of
A serial killer is haunting the Las Vegas Strip. The brutality is alarming. The number of victims is growing. “Blood leads” and it is being splashed across the headlines and clogging air time. But more important to the men who rule the empire of hotels and casinos is containing the story. Read more…
About the Author
John David Bethel
Author
John David Bethel is an award-winning author whose novels include Evil Town, Hotel Hell, Unheard Of, Holding Back the Dark and A Washington Trilogy. He has also been published in popular consumer magazines and respected political journals.
Mr. Bethel spent 35 years in politics and government. He served in the Federal Senior Executive Service as a political appointee where he was Senior Adviser/Director of Speechwriting for the Secretaries of Commerce and Education; Editorial Director for the U.S. Small Business Administration; and Assistant Administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Communications and Citizen Services. Bethel also worked as press secretary/speechwriter to Members of Congress.
Mr. Bethel is a media consultant for a number of prominent communications management firms. He writes speeches, opinion editorials and Congressional testimony for CEOs from the nation’s largest corporations. His op-ed pieces have appeared in prominent newspapers around the country.
He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Tulane University and lives in DeLand, Florida.