From debut author Kristen Andrews comes a new mystery series that may make you snort-laugh.
A rookie PI, a ghost hunting BFF — and a murder that’s dying to be solved.
Jessica Byrne’s a rookie PI with an attitude, an overactive sweet tooth, and big problems. She’s only got two clients—and one of them is dead. Wealthy jeweler Daniel Lakeland is chilling at the morgue, and her other client, sketchy mechanic Vlad, is cooling in the clink, charged with Daniel’s murder. Despite his questionable reputation, Jessica is convinced Vlad’s innocent. Now she has to find the real killer before Vlad goes up the river for good, the real killer goes free…and before her fledgling business flatlines.
Luckily, Jessica’s got backup—her best friend and business partner Sam, a paranormal investigator who swears her Ouija board knows more than the cops do. Unluckily, Jessica’s case collides with her heartthrob ex and main rival, PI Max O’Conner, and they’re forced to team up and beat the weird streets of Pottstown, Pennsylvania—a town overflowing with eccentrics, secrets, and trouble.
On the hunt for a murderer, they’ll bend the law, dodge wannabe gangsters with a fast food habit, go undercover at an ’80s party, and try (and fail spectacularly) to keep their chemistry under control.
Snark, sparks, and small-town scandal—this mystery proves that sometimes the dead aren’t the only ones haunting you.

Release date: December 20. Available for pre-order.
And coming in 2026...
Jessica's knee deep in weed, covered in poison ivy and on the trail of a cold blooded killer.
While out squatching in the state park, Jessica and Sam mistakenly mosey into a marijuana farm, witness a murder and high-tail it out of the woods as arrows whiz past them. When the dead guy's best friend shows up in her office the next day, instead of bigfoot hunting with Sam, Jessica and ex-cop Max O'Conner team up to hunt a killer around town. Sam catches a UFO case and calls Kurt Crater from the Pennsylvania UFO Organization (PUFOO) to help investigate, and Jessica gets caught up in her Aunt Joanie's nutty pyramid scheme. Soon, she and Sam are knee-deep in cashews, chaos and hell-bent on earning a trip to the tropics.
Join Jessica as she dodges arrows, bullets, and tractor beams in this second snark-filled installment of the Jessica Byrne, P.I. mystery series.

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