Super Secret (Not Really) First Chapter Preview of Lost Things

Lost Things is going swimmingly - should be through Chapter 4 today. As promised, here's the blurb. Then you can click the link and read Chapter One.

It started with an unexpected phone call and three words: “I need you.” Now, after 18 years of self-exile, Claire Brandt is back in the dark heart of New Orleans, looking for an old friend who suddenly can’t be found. But that doesn’t stop Claire. She’s a finder of lost things, from misplaced childhood memorabilia to stolen paintings to lost people.

But someone else doesn’t want Elodie Marchand found, and after a vicious attack, a trail of clues leads Claire deep into a gothic cityscape where a beautiful actress disappeared nearly two decades ago, where a trail of mutilated bodies led to a dead end, where a political scandal drove powerful men to suicide.

Claire is about to discover that New Orleans is a place where the past is very much alive, and where nothing stays lost forever. 

You can read a sneak peek of Chapter One here.  

And the rough cover, in case you missed it:

New Novel Cover Preview

Started on a brand new book last week, i.e. an unplanned book which rudely shoved the other books to the side and flung itself down on the chaise waiting to be catered to. Thriller/Crime/Mystery set in the French Quarter and pretty much complete now inside my head, working it's way into actuality. Here's a first rough of the cover concept:

Hopefully have the blurbage and a preview chapter up next week!