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CATHY ACE:

"…a mingled yarn, skillful and sick together…"

(Source: All'southward Well That Ends Well, Human activity 4, Scene 3, William Shakespeare)

In The Corpse with the Granite Heart, the eleventh Cait Morgan Mystery (November 5th 2021, Four Tails Publishing Ltd.), Cait Morgan and her husband Bud Anderson are visiting London, England, for some pre-Christmas cheer, and to run into the new fiancée of their friend, John Silver. But – because this is a classic, closed-circle, mystery – things don't become quite co-ordinate to programme. Indeed, within hours of their arrival they're not only grappling with the idea that they're off to a dinner party to "celebrate" the life of a recently deceased Shakespeare aficionado, but they're likewise confronted with a tragic, and puzzling, death.

This book's given me the risk to take Cait to her onetime stamping footing of London, and to force her to face some ghosts from her past. Being a bright adult female, she expected as much, simply – as is e'er the way for Cait, who's not as judgmental well-nigh herself as she is about others – she hadn't foreseen how very many ghosts there were, nor how they might pool their resource against her.

Cait Morgan was "born" within a collection of brusk stories (in Murder Keeps No Calendar) and developed in a novella (in Murder Knows No Flavour), simply about readers commencement met her in The Corpse with the Silver Tongue, the first novel in her own series, published in March 2012. That'south almost x years agone (where did all that time become?) just – for Cait – the books she appears in have covered only most 3 and a half years of her life, and so she'due south just turned l, whereas…well, let'southward only say this writer is no longer in her 50s, merely had fun while she was, eh!?

When I created her, Cait was about my historic period, and a professor of criminal psychology at a university in Vancouver that was a synthesis of the two universities in Vancouver where I was/had been education. Like me, she is short, overweight (damn those wretched Body Mass Index thingies!) and a scrap bossy. I besides gave her a Welsh nascency and upbringing – like me – though she'd migrated to Canada by the time we met her. Who likewise did that, aged xl? Yep, me. So, aye, Cait'southward a lot similar me, and each of the books almost her adventures take taken her to places where I've either lived, or worked. So, equally y'all read the books, y'all're also taking my life-journey with me. Possibly never moreso than in this book. It's taken me a long time to face to my ghosts – and I decided Cait could help me out.

I lived in London for eighteen years, and miss many aspects of information technology to this day…for example, I sent Cait and Bud along to my favourite galleries to see some of the paintings with which I built a deep relationship over the years, which was dandy fun. I hope you like them. As well, writing this book has given me the risk to conjure old haunts of mine that no longer exist, share feelings I've experienced when realizing that change ways memories are all we have of people and places, also as creating new, absolutely fictional situations that gave me an opportunity to examine the nature of toxic, and – of course – deadly human relationships.

I promise yous enjoy all the Shakespearean quotes as chapter titles (aye, in that location's a list of sources at the end of the volume!), and maybe you'll even spot the fact that I pinched the Keen Bard'south classic five-act structure for this sweeping tragedy, which follows the House of Asimov equally it teeters, and falls. With the highest body-count of any of the Cait Morgan Mysteries (to date), at that place'south also a Shakespearean swagger to the scale of the overall tale.

If that sounds similar your cup of tea – with a spoonful of Shakespearean allusions y'all'll have fun spotting (I promise) throughout to sweeten the pot – and so this could be the book for you to coil up with on a chilly evening, equally yous programme your seasonal decorating.

Those who knew me during my "London years" might have a few surprises, but – if you didn't know me back and so – this book might requite y'all an insight into some of the "mingled yarn" that was my life in those times.

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Cathy Ace is the author of the traditional Cait Morgan Mysteries, the cozy WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries, and the psychological suspense novel The Incorrect Boy, Cathy was built-in and raised in Wales, but now lives in Canada. A Bony Blithe, IPPY, and IBA honor winner, she's also been shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award. Her Cait Morgan Mysteries, and The Wrong Boy, have been optioned for TV, and she's currently working on editing the script (which, no, she didn't write…not her skill set!) for the movie of The Corpse with the Silverish Tongue.

The Corpse with the Granite Heart is published on November 5th 2021 by Four Tails Publishing Ltd. https://world wide web.amazon.com/dp/B09D57VBZVhttps://world wide web.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-corpse-with-the-granite-heartISBN paperback: 978-i-990550-00-three ISBN digital: 978-1-9992230-9-0

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