A Byrd & Crowe Mystery Series, Book 1
Mystery / Suspense
Date Published: 10-15-2022
Publisher: New Atlantian Library
A young woman with a questionable past…
A family struggling to find common ground…
A murder victim with no known enemies…
Determined to overcome the dark secrets she helped reveal three years ago when she rescued a baby from a locked car and ran away, Xandra Byrd is now a student in criminology at the local community college and an accepted part of her biological family. Still, she struggles to escape the demons of her dysfunctional childhood. But when the woman who helped put her family back together is murdered, and she and her brother implicated in the crime, Xandra must return to the dark side of human nature in search of a killer. Will she solve the mystery and clear her name, or will she become the next victim?
About the Author
J.E. Irvin is the author of five mystery/thriller novels, a two-time winner of the Whodunit Award, and a member of SistersinCrime, Central Ohio Fiction Writers, Buckeye Crime Writers, and the Ohio Writers Association. Irvin, her husband, and their two cats reside on the edge of a nature park which serves as inspiration for her work. For more about the author, check out www.janetirvin.com and sign up for her newsletter as well as updates on future Byrd& Crowe mysteries.
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