Visions of Death: The Music Department Murders

A Depression-Era Mystery Novel with a Spark of the Supernatural.   

Love Jazz? 

The Swing Era? 

New York City in the 1930s? 

Reluctant jazz-singing detectives?   

A young woman who strives to reach her dreams during the Depression with a family that keeps secrets about her past, their past, and who they are.  

Summer of 1935 Ruby is the Weston Music School's rising star with her swinging jazz quartet. Next stop, the Roseland Ballroom Competition. After taking a break from helping the police find murder suspects with her extra sensory vision, the images of death have returned. Girls from school are disappearing. Ruby has to act fast and find their killer even when all the signs point to her.

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Visions of Death: The Music Department Murders ebook is LIVE!

My Historical Supernatural Suspense is Available as of TODAY!  

This story started as serialized fiction (experiment) on Kindle Vella, and after several friends had trouble reading the chapters online using tokens and wanted a book they could take along on their travels, I had to deliver! Both an ebook and a paperback are available. 

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Summer 1935 Ruby St. Claire is a rising star of the Weston Music School Department with her swinging quartet. Next stop, the Roseland Ballroom Competition. After taking a break from helping the police find murder suspects with her extra sensory vision, the images of death have returned. Girls from school are disappearing. Ruby has to act fast and find their killer even when all the signs point to her.

Visions of Death: The Music Department Murders

The first three episodes are free to read! 

Visions of Death: The Music Department Murders  takes place during the summer of 1935, the build-up to WW II is heating up, swing music is blasting from the airwaves, and seventeen-year-old, Ruby St. Claire is a rising star of Weston's music department with her swinging quartet. 

Next stop, the Roseland Ballroom Competition. She's helped the police find murder suspects since she was thirteen with her extrasensory vision, but after taking a break to focus on her music, the images of death have returned. Girls from school are disappearing. Ruby has to act fast and find their killer even when all the signs point to her. 

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In the author's notes at the end, I've added a couple of historical events that were happening at the time and influenced the story.  There are historical parallels to the current build-up of the authoritarian political climate we find ourselves in now. Not only in the US, as I thought when I began this project, but all over the world. We much squash white supremacy!   

After watching the Authors Guild Foundation's webinar about serialized fiction, I was inspired to try it. Have a look.

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