Past & Present: A Marketville Mystery #2
By Judy Penz Sheluk
Rating: PG
Genre: Mystery
Blurb:
Sometimes the past reaches out to the present...
It’s been thirteen months since Calamity (Callie) Barnstable inherited a house in Marketville under the condition that she search for the person who murdered her mother thirty years earlier. She solves the mystery, but what next? Unemployment? Another nine-to-five job in Toronto?
Callie decides to set down roots in Marketville, take the skills and knowledge she acquired over the past year, and start her own business: Past & Present Investigations.
It’s not long before Callie and her new business partner, best friend Chantelle Marchand, get their first client: a woman who wants to find out everything she can about her grandmother, Anneliese Prei, and how she came to a “bad end” in 1956. It sounds like a perfect first assignment. Except for one thing: Anneliese’s past winds its way into Callie’s present, and not in a manner anyone—least of all Callie—could have predicted.
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Release Date: September 21, 2018 Print and Kindle
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Excerpt (from Chapter 6):
I checked our website for Misty’s update on her Message page, pleased to see that it explained the Rider-Waite deck she use for her tarot readings.
Originally published in 1910 by William Rider & Son of London, the illustrations for the Rider-Waite cards were drawn in 1909 by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite. Smith’s richly detailed and symbolic drawings transformed the standard tarot deck. Today, Rider-Waite is one of the most popular tarot decks in the English-speaking world. See History of Tarot for more information.
The History of Tarot was linked to the “coming soon” child page.
Today’s Message had captivated Louisa. It featured the Eight of Wands: eight thin logs pointing toward the ground, with leaves falling against a clear blue sky and a rolling, treed landscape.
The Eight of Wands (Element: Fire)
This is the only card in the minor arcana that does not include people, animals, or mythological creatures. Notice how the eight wands work in tandem, each pointing in the same downward direction, as if in harmony with each other, the leaves and the earth. The overall impression of the card is one of peacefulness, movement, teamwork, and determination.
Misty’s Message: This is the perfect time to take action. Working with a team will help you to produce the results you desire.
I had to grin. I knew from past research that reading of the tarot was at the interpretation of the reader, although there was a general consensus on what each card represented. Misty had taken the Eight of Wands and made it all about purpose and teamwork. Not only was it clever, Misty had earned her first finder’s fee, split fifty-fifty with Arabella. Not a bad start.
It was time to tackle the train case and sort the contents. I felt the muscles in my neck relax. I could do this. We could do this. I called Chantelle, provided a brief update, and paced the room until she arrived.
I checked our website for Misty’s update on her Message page, pleased to see that it explained the Rider-Waite deck she use for her tarot readings.
Originally published in 1910 by William Rider & Son of London, the illustrations for the Rider-Waite cards were drawn in 1909 by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite. Smith’s richly detailed and symbolic drawings transformed the standard tarot deck. Today, Rider-Waite is one of the most popular tarot decks in the English-speaking world. See History of Tarot for more information.
The History of Tarot was linked to the “coming soon” child page.
Today’s Message had captivated Louisa. It featured the Eight of Wands: eight thin logs pointing toward the ground, with leaves falling against a clear blue sky and a rolling, treed landscape.
The Eight of Wands (Element: Fire)
This is the only card in the minor arcana that does not include people, animals, or mythological creatures. Notice how the eight wands work in tandem, each pointing in the same downward direction, as if in harmony with each other, the leaves and the earth. The overall impression of the card is one of peacefulness, movement, teamwork, and determination.
Misty’s Message: This is the perfect time to take action. Working with a team will help you to produce the results you desire.
I had to grin. I knew from past research that reading of the tarot was at the interpretation of the reader, although there was a general consensus on what each card represented. Misty had taken the Eight of Wands and made it all about purpose and teamwork. Not only was it clever, Misty had earned her first finder’s fee, split fifty-fifty with Arabella. Not a bad start.
It was time to tackle the train case and sort the contents. I felt the muscles in my neck relax. I could do this. We could do this. I called Chantelle, provided a brief update, and paced the room until she arrived.
About the author:
An Amazon International Bestselling Author, Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery novel, The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first in the Glass Dolphin Mystery series, was published in July 2015, and is also available in audiobook. The sequel, A Hole In One, was published March 2018, with audiobook to follow Fall 2018.
Skeletons in the Attic, Judy’s second novel, and the first in her Marketville Mystery series, was first published in August 2016 and re-released in December 2017. It is also available in audiobook format. The sequel, Past & Present, will be released September 2018. Judy’s short crime and literary fiction appears in several collections.
Judy is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Crime Writers of Canada, where she serves on the Board of Directors as a representative for Toronto/Southwestern Ontario.
Find out more about Judy at http://www.judypenzsheluk.com.
Social Contacts:
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An Amazon International Bestselling Author, Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery novel, The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first in the Glass Dolphin Mystery series, was published in July 2015, and is also available in audiobook. The sequel, A Hole In One, was published March 2018, with audiobook to follow Fall 2018.
Skeletons in the Attic, Judy’s second novel, and the first in her Marketville Mystery series, was first published in August 2016 and re-released in December 2017. It is also available in audiobook format. The sequel, Past & Present, will be released September 2018. Judy’s short crime and literary fiction appears in several collections.
Judy is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Crime Writers of Canada, where she serves on the Board of Directors as a representative for Toronto/Southwestern Ontario.
Find out more about Judy at http://www.judypenzsheluk.com.
Social Contacts:
Facebook: https://business.facebook.com/JudyPenzSheluk/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8602696.Judy_Penz_Sheluk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JudyPenzSheluk
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/judypenzsheluk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/judypenzsheluk/
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