Random Acts of Malice

About the Book

Homicide detective Tom Cavanaugh is tasked with investigating the truth behind threatening letters sent from a prisoner in a women’s correctional facility to a childhood friend, now a criminal judge. Are the threats real or the imagination of a prisoner looking for preferential treatment? The urgency of the investigation increases as, one by one, people involved with the manslaughter conviction of a woman who tied a ten-month-old child to a radiator start dying. As Cavanaugh tries to unravel the murders and find the person or persons behind them, his brother, Jesuit priest Jack Bennis, joins the hunt as he thinks he knows the assassin is someone who once tried to kill him and has a personal grudge against him.

About the Author

Before becoming a full-time writer, George Hopkins was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and an English chairperson of an NYC High School. He has taught writing in workshops, colleges, and in Puerto Rico and twice was chosen by NY Association of Teachers as Teacher of the Year. NY1 honored him as a New Yorker of the Week for his work with senior writers, and .he has received two CTV NOVA Awards for community service. Each of his three previous mystery-suspense novels received awards, and the most recent, Letters from the Dead, was one of six finalists in the 2013 International Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and won second prize in the Reader Views Book Contest in mystery-suspense-thriller.