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Fatal Errors, coming August 2024 from Crossroad Press!
My “Toledo Trilogy” is available locally at Epic Book Shop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and at Toledo Lamp Company, in Sylvania, Ohio. Also online at all the usual outlets.
Forty & Out
Someone is targeting Toledo, Ohio’s single women when they turn forty, tucking them into bed and turning birthday greetings into obituaries. Newly-assigned Homicide Detective Veronica Jadzinski vows to prevent the body count from increasing and to prove her transfer from Narcotics wasn’t a fluke—departmental regulations, disparaging lieutenants, and a rigid new partner be damned.
When the killer targets Jadz’s sister, things get personal. Jadz must heal an old family rift to stop the murders, and in the end regains a belief in herself and in those who really matter.
Burned Bridges
Murder reignites dormant passions between Detective Veronica Jadzinski and her ex-husband, retired-cop-turned-PI Nate Solomon – not all of them good. He’s pushing to re-open the murder case of his boyhood friend that Jadz and her partner couldn’t solve.
Emotions and egos collide as Nate and Jadz clash over who to believe: the victim’s grieving mother or his estranged sister with secrets of her own. The struggle pits them against a turbulent history neither of them is sure they want to explore as they rediscover the life-affirming power of truth.
Unwelcome Ties
Twice-orphaned Toni Horvath’s naïve quest for any remaining family ensnares her as a mule for a counterfeiting ring. Her search runs afoul of her fiancé’s political aspirations as she finds tenuous connections tying his campaign to a crime boss.
She must decipher not only phony documents but phony family and relationships before the FBI arrests her – or the villain makes good on his threats.
Fans of Jadz 1 & 2 will enjoy learning about her life before Forty & Out.
And if you email me a copy of your receipt, I’ll send along a signed bookplate!
CL Pauwels at Large 