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DB Corey lives in the Baltimore area with his lovely wife Maggie, an offish Chocolate Lab named Murphy, and a Catahoula-Leopard Hound they call Bond—James Bond. After a rather uninspired stint in college, he spent twelve years with the U.S. Naval Reserves flying aircrew aboard a Navy P-3 Orion chasing down Russian subs. During his time with the USNR, he began a career in data processing, or as we know it today, Information Technology. He began writing in his mid-50s.
His debut novel—Chain of Evidence—was released on August 1, 2013, and is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books A Million. He is currently working on a second crime thriller, and keeps a political thriller on the back burner. Corey has contributed opinion columns to online periodicals, and appeared on local talk radio, all under the nom de plume, Bernie Thomas.
Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
Chain of Evidence, by D.B. Corey, is a debut mystery novel that will intrigue the reader from the first chapter. A medical examiner (with obvious psychological problems) first rapes the women he has murdered via cyanide and then autopsies them. The female victims appear random but the ages of the victims are confusing to investigator Moby Truax. Truax has a few problems of his own. He is ageing and he fears retirement or, worse, a desk job. His skills seem to be faltering and he is resentful when an FBI investigator named Frances Vecchio is assigned to work with him on the cases. Older women in California have been killed and now, younger women are being killed in Truax's territory of Baltimore. To make matters worse, the female investigator assigned to help the lead investigator seems to be a step ahead of Truax, keeping him continually on guard.
The reader learns about a killer in the first chapter. This is both unnerving and interesting as it allows the reader the opportunity to try to understand the killer's disturbed psychological ruminations. As if the medical examiner's antics were not sick enough, the reader is yet to experience another surprise toward the end of the book. The 'surprise was somewhat predictable for this reader. Nevertheless, I found the book to be a well written and interesting psychological study of both criminals and the persons attempting to hold them accountable. The 'Chain of Evidence' does indeed lead the reader, as well as the detectives, to logical conclusions.
