MURDER GRABS THE HEADLINES, AND PAT TIERNEY IS ON THE CASE Financial advisor Pat Tierney's new client appears to live a charmed life. Monika Lentz is beautiful, wealthy, and enjoying a successful career as the star columnist at the Toronto World newspaper. When she confides that she is pregnant, Pat's heart goes out to her, knowing that raising a child alone can be challenging. Soon after her meeting with Pat, Monika fails to make her newspaper column's deadline. She is later found strangled in her bed. Matt Ryder, a Toronto World police reporter, is devastated by the news of Monika's murder. He and Pat set out to learn who took this vibrant woman's life-and why.

Rosemary McCracken has worked on newspapers across Canada as a reporter, arts reviewer, editorial writer and editor. She is now a Toronto-based freelance journalist who specializes in personal finance and the financial services industry. Rosemary's first Pat Tierney mystery novel, Safe Harbor, was shortlisted for Britain's Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger in 2010. It was published by Imajin Books in 2012. Its sequel, Black Water, was released in 2013, followed by Raven Lake in 2016. Jack Batten, the Toronto Star's crime fiction reviewer, calls Pat "a hugely attractive sleuth figure." Rosemary has had short stories published in Room of One's Own, Mother Margaret and the Rhinoceros Cafe, The Whole She-Bang I, World Enough and Crime, Thirteen, 13 O'Clock; Destination: Mystery!, 13 Claws, Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017, and Mystery Weekly. Her short story "The Sweetheart Scamster" in Thirteen was a finalist for a Derringer Award in 2014. Rosemary lives in Toronto and teaches novel-writing at George Brown College.