Cascading Death

(Newly complete and unpublished)

The Niagara Falls tourist frenzy has hushed as a morning haze hangs over the gorge. Homicide Detective Grace Greco stands over the body of the young woman who had gone missing five days before and now lays prone in the ferns like an alabaster statue in an overgrown garden. Her pristine body signifies that death has only recently occurred. Where has she been these past five days? A meandering trail of leads, some true and some false, eventually brings the answers needed to catch a killer. But in an unexpected twist, our killer becomes the next victim and the homicide team must scramble to solve a mysterious puzzle. The result is nothing they could have imagined. Niagara’s sinful underbelly is far from wholesome tourist fun.

• Long-listed for the UK’s Grindstone Literary Novel Prize in 2023