Jade Thyme must delve into her mother's free-spirited past if she wants to prove her father was murdered and hadn't died from a cocaine overdose.
Legislative Clerk Adam Younghusband gives Jade damning evidence linking her to the island's once feared drug dealer. Immediately Jade and her sister Sage are targets as they uncover generations of drug dealers, while hiding from an arsonist determined to destroy them. Is it all connected? From her mother's ghost appearing on the picnic table to a possessed typewriter tapping a warning, 1968 clashes with the present as Jade uncovers a deadly secret while trying to stay one step ahead of a murderer hellbent on revenge
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Joanna Vander Vlugt is an author and illustrator. As a teenager, she drew charcoal portraits and wrote mysteries. Under the pseudonym J.C. Szasz, her short mysteries Egyptian Queen and The Parrot and Wild Mushroom Stuffing were published in the Crime Writers of Canada mystery anthologies. Her personal essay, No Beatles Reunion was published in the Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle anthology.
The Unravelling, her debut novel, was a Canadian Book Club Awards finalist. She is proud of her podcast JCVArtStudio - From the Dressing Room and the many artists and authors she's interviewed.