Headline News and Top Stories in a single police-action thriller!


In Shades of Fear, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Detective Colt Jessup meets the most urgent and complex assignment of his career; find a serial killer before the sociopath kills again. Having found no apparent pattern in the murders of four disparate people with no links between them, the Feds take control of the investigation. Colt is his usual combative self battling the Feds to keep his team of detectives on the investigation while trying to improve relations with his ex-wife. Several powerful characters appear in this page-turner and help bring into sharp focus headline news seen every day by Colt—and all of us. Susan Mills Wilson, with skill and panache, has Colt and her characters engage with witnesses and suspects affected by matters like: mixing of religious and political beliefs, American domestic terrorism, alcoholism, PTSD, Islamophobia, nationalism, white supremacy, and more societal issues of our time—straight out of the headlines. In Shades of Fear, Susan entertains with a blockbuster that will be the “talk-of-the-town” for a long time. Read Shades of Fear and join the conversation!