Nothing much happens in the small coastal town of Rocky Harbor, and rookie officer Izzy Santos wishes her job was a little more exciting than handing out speeding tickets and removing an azaleas-eating turtle from an old lady's yard. Then she gets a call to follow up on a report about a missing young woman. The town's senior investigator is out sick and Izzy finds herself not only tracking down leads about the missing young woman, but is called to investigate a second missing person.
With the clues piling on top of each other, Izzy has to overcome her law enforcement inexperience fast. Fortunately, she has a secret weapon up her sleeve—her Aunt Maggie, a closet psychic who reluctantly agrees to help with the investigation.
Dead Woman Walking takes Officer Izzy and the readers on a journey through a tangle of disconnected clues that Izzy has to somehow tie together before the perpetrator strikes again.
Bink Books
256 pp ● 6x9
$16.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-13-7 (pb)
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Paranormal
Publication Date: October 3, 2023
Diana Corbitt is a retired elementary school teacher who has lived her entire life in northern California. She has two sons who, although grown up and out of the house, still live nearby. Ever since she was a kid she loved to be scared, either by movies or books. She started writing her first story in sixth grade. That one never got past six pages, but now that she’s retired she can’t stop writing. Her work has appeared in Bewildering Stories and Encounters Magazine. She had a podcast on Manor House and one of her short stories was published in an anthology entitled Wax and Wane: A Gathering of Witch Tales. When she’s not trying to scare herself silly, Diana enjoys working with stained glass, travel, and going to the movies. They don’t all have to be scary. Just not chick flicks.
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