Taken to the Grave
When a girl’s body is discovered in a park in the sleepy Massachusetts town of Oakhurst, local detective Jo is shocked to the core. Because the girl is the second innocent victim to turn up dead in three days. And just like the first, a tarot card has been left by the body. The meaning of the card: betrayal.
After uncovering a series of threatening messages targeting the girl, a student at the university, and the first victim, her teacher, Jo thinks she’s locked the killer in her crosshairs. The primary suspect is a volatile ex-military student with an axe to grind for failing grades, and the frightened town is out for his blood. But the next day, a much-loved member of the community is found dead in her home, a tarot card in her mail. There’s no clear motive to link her death to the others, and the message on the card this time is even stranger: domestic bliss.
With a fourth body and card appearing the following day, Jo knows she’s running out of time to crack the code and bring the killer to justice. And the pressure only gets worse with heart-breaking news about Jo’s father forcing her to choose between helping her family heal or the victims’ families get justice. Can Jo find the twisted murderer sending the town into a panic before another life is lost? Or this time, will the dangerous killer find her first?
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M.M. Chouinard
My first fiction story was published in my local paper when I was eight, and I fell in love with Agatha Christie novels not long after. The stories kept rattling around my skull while I pursued a Ph.D. in psychology and while I helped to found the first US research university of the new millennium, University of California, Merced. For sanity’s sake, I finally decided to release them.
When I’m not writing, I’m probably unleashing the visual side of my creativity: I love nail art and all types of paper crafts. Or, I might be working on my family genealogy; I recently managed to document one of my ancestral lines back to Charlemagne (a lineage that may or may not explain my passionate relationship with French cheeses—okay, with all cheese). I also love coffee, chocolate, bullet journaling, tarot cards, anything to do with Halloween or zombie apocalypses, and small doses of tomfoolery and shenanigans.
No matter what I’m doing, you’ll find me surrounded by my three cats and my dog—and my husband, who, in addition to being my biggest fan, technically keeps me from being a crazy cat lady.
Also writes as Michelle Chouinard.
Detective Jo Fournier
Detective Jo Fournier consists of seven primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
