Unheard Of

“A Whodunit Award Winner that stands out … if you want to go inside the profiling of a serial killer, this book takes all the facts and twists them into a can’t-put-it-down story!”
- Nicolas Gilmartin Teranzi, Online Critics Corner

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. Keeping their hotels filled and casinos humming. They call a summit and meet with the police and the city’s premier public relations team. That is when Rachel West and Sheriff Joe Fontana are handed the job of putting a lid on the horror. Unheard of is based on the histories of the most conniving and deadly serial killers and takes the reader deep into the details of the crimes and the psychology of these twisted individuals. The novel also looks at the often hidden storylines that play out within communities plagued by devastating circumstances. The character and strength of the men and women in these communities is challenged and, in the process, revealed for what it is … or isn’t.

John David Bethel is the author of previous novels, Evil Town, Blood Moon 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 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. Today, Mr. Bethel serves as a media consultant for a number of prominent communications management firms.