📚 Stolen in Death by: J. D. Robb
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy ...
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#SelfPromoSaturday! My spooky sapphic Victorian #mystery sees two dodgy con artists trying to stop an MP murdering his wife.
"...a gripping mystery with fraudulent medium, immersive locations and sense of time and a twist we never expected."
"absolute perfection"
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Carless me bringing copies of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder, for signing at #WordFantasy2025 (not at big signing session). Stop me and buy one for all your sapphic spiritualist skullduggery.
Or it can be delivered signed to your home, or via eBook. Details on my website.
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My local London bookshop
@allgoodbookshop.co.uk
has sold 35 copies of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - crikey!! They sell my signed copies. It's also in the Quaker Book Centre, Euston Rd, London.
Check out this "astonishing feat" "absolute perfection" "fun read" of a novel
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As September draws to a close, the Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder is getting love! It's the spooky sapphic twisty surprising read you need as the days draw in.
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Publication Day The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder
“It's deliciously twisty, with women who won't be told, a young bride in peril, and the delicate art of a con.”
“A book I've been looking for all my life. Queer found family all wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery. Absolute perfection.”
“a brilliant, gripping story. .. if you're looking for a great new book to read, I encourage you to check it out.”
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Hi Masto, for a brief period you can download my book The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder as an ePub here. It's Bookfunnel so sound, and should work on many platforms. Please boost!
Victorian England and an older sapphic couple, running a spiritualist scam, try to prevent a murder.
https://BookHip.com/CNCQTCB for download
https://stephencox.co.uk/books/upcoming/
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#WordWeavers 19. Could you imagine a story in the same world where your MC is the antagonist?
Already have. Mrs Ashton and Braddie started out as the antagonists in a short story - at least, close alt-versions.
They interested me more than the protagonists. after another false start, The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder was born.
I have another story in which the narrator believes they are the bad guys.
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Two weeks before #TheCrookedMedium... I write about how C19th tech leaves plenty of room for the gifted amateur.
Yuckiest fact.
Smell/taste stomach contents etc / feed to rats - tests for poisons + sedatives. Eww.
Full post
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“The Paris Police Laboratory”, Ferdinand Gueldry, via artvee. (1887)
Not sending this to the newspaper.
SIL pitching as pitch
"A highly readable Victorian mystery melodrama with a big heart, Sarah Waters meets Richard Osman."
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