The presence of absence.
An unbearable weight of emptiness.
—John Mark Green
Jeff Resnick and his brother, Dr. Richard Alpert, are on the front lines of that emotion when it comes to their current investigations for their new consulting firm, R&A Insights. As Jeff tries to help a comatose man, whose brewery is in trouble, transition to the great beyond, Richard’s cold-case arson is heating up in the here and now.
While Jeff grapples with the death of a relationship and the end his client’s life, Richard faces his own demons and jealousies until their worlds collide to fight against the evil that confronts them.
The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what first put L.L. Bartlett’s pen name Lorna Barrett on the New York Times Bestseller list, but it’s her talent—whether writing as Lorna, L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett—that keeps her in her readers’ hearts. This multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square and Lotus bay Mystery series, and the Tales from Blythe Cove Manor, and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s).