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A Shana Merchant Novel #3
by Tessa Wegert
Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home.
The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York.
Politics, power, passion...there are dark undercurrents in Shana's new home, and finding the killer means dredging up her new friends and neighbors' old grudges and long-kept secrets.
That is, if the killer is from the community at all. For Shana's keeping a terrible secret from almost everyone around her: eighteen months ago she escaped from serial killer Blake Bram's clutches. But has he followed her, to kill again?
The Shana Merchant novels are a brilliant blend of chilling psychological thriller and gripping police procedural, set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.
"In Wegert's standout third crime thriller starring Shana Merchant, the former NYPD detective continues to pursue Blake Bram, who abducted her after killing three women he'd met through a dating website...Wegert nicely balances plot and characterization. Fans of Denise Mina's Alex Morrow will be pleased." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Wegert melds the police investigation so deftly with Shana's endless family drama...that most readers won't care that new suspects continue to pop up even as Shana's doing her best to ring down the curtain on her childhood companion's reign of terror. Congratulations to Wegert's hard-used heroine, who deserves a completely new adventure." - Kirkus Reviews
"An atmospheric, sophisticated thriller with layers upon layers of secrets." – Sarah Stewart Taylor, author of the Maggie D'arcy mysteries
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Tessa Wegert is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Forbes, the Huffington Post, Adweek, and the Economist. She grew up in Québec near the border of Vermont and now lives with her husband and children in coastal Connecticut. A member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers, Tessa is the author of the Shana Merchant mysteries.
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