What They Saw
Next to the lake’s dappled water, a woman lies on her yoga mat, her limbs twisted as if she is trying to crawl away. Her mug of tea steams into the cool air and her lips, still warm, are parted mid-sentence. But she will never speak or see again...
When Sandra Ashville is found murdered in a sleepy town near Oakhurst, Detective Jo Fournier is first at the scene. Jo is shaken by the similarities between herself and the dead assistant District Attorney, a dedicated woman with a heart for justice. And as she examines Sandra’s body, Jo discovers something that chills her to the bone: the bullet hole is covered by an intact blindfold. Why was Sandra only blindfolded after her death?
The very next morning Jo receives a shocking call. A judge has been brutally killed, before she too was blindfolded. Soon it becomes clear that the twisted serial killer is working with a deadly countdown: every morning, another body will be found. Working around the clock, Jo makes an important break-through: all the victims are connected to the same murder trial. And Jo’s dear friend and partner Bob Arnett could be next…
With the next morning rapidly approaching, Jo and her team pull out all the stops to catch the killer. But when she uncovers a stain of corruption that includes Bob, Jo faces an impossible choice. Can she trust her partner, when the evidence suggests he turned a blind eye to a grave miscarriage of justice? And as the body count rises, can Jo catch the killer before it is too late for her oldest friend?
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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.
