I’m happy to share with you the cover reveal for the first book in the NEW “Melanie Bass” mystery series, coming October 2022 and will be up for preorder soon.

Book Synopsis
After her divorce, Visiting Nurse Melanie Bass needs to keep in touch with her philandering ex-husband, Dr. Artie Krapaneck, as they share custody of her beloved dog, Bruno. When she arrives at a Connecticut highway rest stop to retrieve the dog for “her week”, she finds Artie’s dead body, along with that of an unknown woman. It seems that now that Artie is dead he will finally be out of her life forever. He isn’t.

Melanie soon has reason to suspect that her gruesome discovery has put her own life, as well as that of Bruno, in danger. She realizes she must find out who killed Artie and why. She begins to fear that he has left in her possession the link to something the killers want. As the police try to solve the murder, she uncovers information on her own. Melanie learns how much she never knew about the man she was married to for seven years, a man she thought she knew so well. She comes face to face with his first wife, Lynn, a woman she never even knew existed. However, Lynn becomes an ally and with her help and that of a kind and eligible veterinarian who is treating Bruno for PTSD, she takes on the killers before they kill both her and Bruno.

Publication Date: October 18, 2022
Publisher: Level Best Books
Format: Print and digital
Name of Series: Melanie Bass
Number in Series: #1
Genre: Traditional Mystery
Author Website: christine-falcone

Meet the author
Christine Falcone’s short stories have appeared in several publications, most recently in Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England writers. After working for nearly forty years as an RN in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Christine is delighted that retirement coincides with the publication of her first full length mystery.

She lives on the Connecticut Shoreline with her family and a dog who is not nearly as well behaved as Bruno, the beloved canine in her novel.

All comments are welcomed.