"Dead Man's Hand - A Harker & Blackthorn Prequel"

by J A Ironside

Before she searched for cryptids, she hunted a human monster...
Folk horror meets fringe science in this edge-of-your-seat series of supernatural suspense novels
# Urban Fantasy
# Supernatural
# LGBT
# Adventure
# Folklore

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Curiosity, noun. 1) A strong desire to know or learn something. 2) An unusual or interesting object or fact. 3) That thing which will definitely get you killed. (See also ‘reckless’.) Amy Matthews – newly qualified physicist, overachiever and latent psychic – is feeling restless. That’s the trouble with the fast track – suddenly you’re done and left with too much time on your hands and not enough to occupy your mind. Maybe that’s why her ‘special skillset’ is misbehaving. What she really needs is some excitement. Amy is about to regret that wish. Stumbling across the body of a hanged man, Amy is convinced he was murdered. The taciturn, mercurial and gorgeous detective she recently antagonised agrees with her. Pushed into an uneasy alliance, she and DS Danvers hunt for a murderer. One who has killed before and plans to kill again. A killer who has a desperate agenda and an affinity for the occult… Amy’s time is running out. But at least she’s not feeling directionless anymore. …Right? When science can’t save you, it’s time to break the laws of physics… Dead Man's Hand is the prequel novella to the Harker & Blackthorn series - pulse-pounding urban fantasy which follows three cryptid hunters as they search for mysterious beasts, face up to a corrupt secret organisation and discover the secret of an ancient artefact. If you like snarky heroines, nail-biting action, humour, monster hunters, psychic mystery and slow burn romance, give this a try.