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Hi reader,
Monday belongs to Jessie Clark, and Jessie has been in two very different rooms lately: one with a nosy crow in it, and one with a woman who remembers everything.
Just out: A Murder of Crows
The Winifred Baxter Mysteries, Book Two. A fair-play paranormal cozy. Sweet, closed-door.
When the town historian dies at the foot of a dark stair the week of the spring festival, Pelican Cove calls it the old Wexford omen: when the crows sit the roof, the house gives up a soul. Winifred Baxter calls it a button torn off in a struggle, a photograph stolen from its pin, and a forty-year-old secret nobody wanted found. The crows are gathering, Copernicus will not go near one warm, beloved door in town, and the kindest woman in Pelican Cove keeps telling everyone it was fate. Which is exactly what a murderer would say.
A taste of the opening:
"The first thing I did every morning was count the things Copernicus had moved overnight, and on the second Tuesday in April the count came out wrong before I had even finished my tea. It was not a ritual I had chosen. It had developed the way most things in my life had developed, gradually and then all at once, until it was simply the shape of how mornings worked."
Read it now: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
Coming soon, and this one is big: The Final Thread
The Vale and Ward Files, Book Three. The trilogy ends here. Detective Cass Vale has a perfect memory that made her the best investigator in the city and the perfect experiment. A sniper's warning shot, an unmarked drive on her doorstep, and the truth she was never meant to recover: her life was authored, all of it, by a program that builds people the way writers build characters. To end it, she has to walk back into the place where she was made. I will tell you the moment it goes live.
Subscriber first look: reply with the word FINALE and I will send you the opening lines of The Final Thread before anyone else gets them.
Want to read Jessie early? Her ARC team gets advance copies free, for an honest review. Email [email protected].
New to the Vale and Ward Files? Start at Book One, The Echo Man, and you will be caught up by the time the finale lands.
Reply and tell me: are you a cozy-mystery reader, a psychological-thriller reader, or the rare soul who devours both?
Happy reading,
Jessie Clark