Description
It’s been two months since Emmaline McCoy moved from L.A. to the remote Northern California coastal town of Justice Bay to settle her aunt’s estate. One cold November morning, as she runs along a rural road, she notices a flurry of one-hundred-dollar bills floating in the air and follows the source to a meadow where she finds a man shot in the head execution-style.
Early suspects range from a billionaire Russian real estate oligarch to a local chicken farmer, but law enforcement’s failure to identify the victim hampers the investigation. Feeling an inexplicable responsibility toward the dead man, Emma uses her resourcefulness to search for a killer, relying on shoe leather and a series of strange visions that lead to a shocking truth, transforming Emma’s worldview and her sense of safety.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Patricia Smiley
Published: 08/11/2026
Publisher: Level Best Books
ISBN: 9798898203153
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 0.56″ H x 9.00″ L x 6.00″ W
About the Author
Smiley, Patricia: – Patricia Smiley is the author of the Tucker Sinclair mysteries and the Pacific Homicide series. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and in Two of the Deadliest, an anthology edited by Elizabeth George. A Dark September Night is the first book in her Justice Bay series, followed by A Cold November Murder. Both are set in a fictional Northern California coastal town. Patty has taught writing at writers’ conferences across the U.S. and Canada. She is the former president of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles and the current vice president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Patty earned a BA from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She lives in Los Angeles with her loyal, opinionated Siberian Forest cat and a backyard feeding station for possums, raccoons, marauding cats, and other critters seeking snacks and a cool sip of water. For more information, please visit www.patriciasmiley.com.
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