Contents ( 42)
- Praise for Death in the Family
- Books by Tessa Wegert
- Contents
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
- THIRTY-TWO
- THIRTY-THREE
- THIRTY-FOUR
- THIRTY-FIVE
- THIRTY-SIX
- THIRTY-SEVEN
- Acknowledgments
- What’s next on your reading list?
“You have to stop this. This is between us. No one else.”
“Look in your purse,” he says.
I turn to stone. My purse is on the floor under my desk. I pick it up. Spread it open.
Cards. A whole deck of them sit inside. How? My purse has been by my feet for the last hour. Before that it was in my motel room, with me. I pull out a card at random. On the back, a black and white image of Eel Bay. I grab another. This one shows the Lost Channel.
The card I found in my gym bag belongs in this pack. Heart Island and Boldt Castle on the front, the Three of Hearts on the back.
Three hearts. Becca. Lanie. Jess. Three women gone, three hearts taken, and now here sits the rest of the deck. Bram isn’t done, not even close.
“What—”
I stop. The line’s gone dead. As I drag my gaze away from my purse, Tim opens the door.
“Morning,” he says. “I just got the strangest text.”
Acknowledgments
It was a joy working on this book with the amazing team at Berkley. Thank you especially to the brilliant Miranda Hill for committing to this story so completely and knowing exactly how to make it better, and to Brittanie Black, Elisha Katz, Erin Fitzsimmons, and Beth Partin for helping to polish and promote the Shana Merchant series. I’m deeply indebted to my eagle-eyed early readers Leila Wegert, Carol Repsher, Michelle Sowden, and Dorinda Bonanno, and always grateful to Jefferson County Sheriff Colleen O’Neill for answering my questions about the New York State Police and BCI investigators. To Bonnie and James Gombos, thanks for sharing your karate expertise. For your encouragement, savvy, and support, thank you Hank Phillippi Ryan and Wendy Walker; and for your generosity, thanks to the 2020 Debuts community of authors, Suzy Leopold, Barrett Bookstore, Finley’s Fiction, the Darien Library, and Crime by the Book. As always, thank you to agent extraordinaire Marlene Stringer for continuing to champion my work after all these years. To Grant and my family, I’d be lost without you. Thanks for everything.
Author photo by Hildi Todrin, Crane Song Photography
Tessa Wegert is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Forbes, Huffington Post, Adweek, and The Economist. She grew up in Quebec near the border of Vermont and now lives with her husband and children in a hundred-year-old house in coastal Connecticut. Tessa writes mysteries set in upstate New York while studying martial arts and dance, and is the author of the Shana Merchant series, beginning with Death in the Family.
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