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The Winterstone Murder: The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, #1
The Winterstone Murder: The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, #1
The Winterstone Murder: The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, #1
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The Winterstone Murder: The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, #1

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This book was originally published under the title Ceremony in August 2021.

 

Dr. Kep Woodhead is a brilliant, irascible forensic toxicologist with a dark past and a nost for trouble. 

Bernadette Becker is a disgraced federal investigator with one last chance. 

They're both assigned to a strange poisoning case: a graduate student has been found dead in a 15th-century chapel, overdosed on a controversial hallucinogen.

The list of suspects is long: the priest, the professor, the piscary president, the protestor, the protégé, and at least one wants to silence Becker.  

Do Becker and Woodhead have a prayer of discovering the truth before the killer strikes again?

 

"...an intelligently wrought, involving and accomplished thriller. Highly recommended."

—Rose Auburn Writing & Reviews

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPax Ardsen
Release dateAug 17, 2021
ISBN9781949082340
The Winterstone Murder: The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, #1
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Paul Austin Ardoin

Paul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Murders of Substance series. He has published fiction and essays in the anthologies The Paths We Tread, 12 Shots, Bottomfish, and Sweet Fancy Moses, and articles about computer security in California Computer News and European Communications. A California native, Paul holds a B.A. in creative writing from the University of California, Santa Barbara. When he's not writing novels or saving the world through better network security, Paul plays keyboards in a dance rock band. He lives in the Sacramento area with his wife, two teenagers, and a menagerie of animals.

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