LET THE GUILTY PAY, the first novel in the Bartholomew Beck series from Fawkes Press, is now available for pre-order on Kindle. It releases wide on July 4.

Bartholomew Beck has a secret.

He saw who killed his neighbor, but he lied to the police and now the wrong man is on Death Row.

Oh, and he wrote a bestselling true-crime book on the murder, further cementing his lies.

Twenty years after Summer Foster’s death, Beck’s writing career has gone cold and he’s making ends meet on a Texas oil pipeline when he finds a co-worker beaten to death with a screwdriver sticking out of her right eye — just like Summer.

This time he’ll have to come clean with what he knows and Let The Guilty Pay.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LET THE GUILTY PAY

“LET THE GUILTY PAY is a cleverly plotted, deftly paced page-turner with complicated, deeply relatable characters. Everyone has a secret, everyone has an agenda, and Rick Treon dispenses the well-earned twists and reveals with the stiletto precision of a master.” — Heather Young, Strand Award-winning and Edgar Nominated author of The Lost Girls

“LET THE GUILTY PAY invites you in like a glass of sweet tea, then knocks you off your feet like a fifth of whiskey. This is dirty Texas noir where no one walks away clean.” — August Norman, author of Come and Get Me

“Rick Treon’s LET THE GUILTY PAY is a sharp, mesmerizing thriller weaving together two murders, two decades apart; the connections between these crimes become evident through unexpected twists and revelations.  Featuring complex, well-rounded characters and vivid settings, this novel begs to be finished in one sitting and left me eager for another installment.” — K.P. Kyle, author of Sync