Twice Bitten: A Matt Davis Mystery

While in prison, Ron Trentweiler, a petty thief, is befriended by an itinerant preacher and gets "religion." Upon his release, he founds a small, storefront Pentecostal-style church in his native, rural Alabama. Enter Winona Stepp, a visitor at one of his services who seems to know all about "Brother Ron," as he has taken to calling himself, yet insists upon keeping her own past to herself. Things go smoothly for the pair, that is until Winona suggests using venomous snakes in their "act" and all hell breaks loose. Eventually, they make their way north into Matt's "backyard" in the Catskills, where things take a murderous twist. What secrets are hiding in Winona's closet? Is Brother Ron exactly what he appears to be? Is he a religious convert or just a con man? These and other questions confront Chief of Police, Matt Davis, along with the usual cast of characters in the new Matt Davis Mystery, TWICE BITTEN, as he once more comes face to face with murder in the sleepy village of Roscoe, NY.

Joe Perrone Jr. was a sportswriter with the Passaic-Clifton, NJ Herald-News, and a freelance advertising copywriter. He was also a professional fly-fishing guide on the Beaverkill River in the Catskill Mountains of New York. ＂As The Twig Is Bent,＂ the first in the Matt Davis Mystery Series, was recently translated into Portuguese. ＂Opening Day＂ (the second in the series) and ＂Twice Bitten＂ are slated for translation in the near future. Mr. Perrone is also the author of ＂Escaping Innocence (A Story of Awakening),＂ a coming-of-age novel set in the ’60s and ＂A ’Real’ Man’s Guide To Divorce (First, you bend over and...).＂ Joe and his wife, Becky, live in the mountains of Western North Carolina with their two calico cats, Cassie and Callie. Joe welcomes comments and inquiries from readers, and makes every effort to respond to them all. Readers may email him at: joetheauthor@joeperronejr.com or visit his website at www.joeperronejr.com.