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The Spiricom - Book Tour and Giveaway

9/24/2021

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The Spiricom
An Early Mystery Book 2
by Roslyn Reid
Genre: Paranormal Mystery

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She was killed on their wedding day…but he couldn’t let her go.

Tall, handsome Dr. Spencer Py was a well-respected environmental scientist…until a limo crash killed his new bride Melanie and left him in a wheelchair. He is racked with despair over his failure to save her until the fateful night he discovers plans on the internet for the Spiricom, Thomas Edison’s electronic device for communicating with the departed. Determined to be united with his beloved Melanie, he builds the device—never imagining his unexpected results would draw an unsuspecting James Early into the scariest case of the Maine detective’s life.



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​Melanie giggled again. “I love you, Sweety. You can have all of me, but save room for the wedding cake.”
Spenser giggled too, enjoying his beautiful bride on their perfect wedding day. Could life get any better? He felt giddy. He felt as if he were floating on air.
He was.
What happened next has been debated around the town of Finderne ever since. Some say Frank Peabo was driving too fast for road conditions. Others claimed it was the fault of black ice, a danger impossible to see. And then there were the more sinister theories . . .
Whatever the cause, the limo slid into a tight curve which curled around like a giant snake, skidding sideways. Frank cursed and fought for control, pumping the brakes and whipping the steering wheel back and forth. His efforts were fruitless—they were heading for a cliff.
There was no guard rail to stop the limo. It teetered on the meager gravel shoulder for a nanosecond, then broke loose and plunged over the drop-off, snap-flipping down the brush-covered hillside, pieces flying everywhere and windows blowing out.
To limo passengers, seat belts don’t exist. Even if they did, Spenser and Melanie never thought of using them. The newlyweds screamed, tossed around like ragdolls in the back seat of the big car on its wild tumble into the ravine.
The limo slammed against a huge mountain pine hard enough to snap the tree in half. Its roof crushed, the vehicle collapsed upside down among the ferns and ladyslippers, its violent plunge ending in a smoking wreck impaled on the tree’s jagged stump.
Moments after Spenser was knocked unconscious he awakened in a daze. He turned to find an imprint of his cheek on the privacy partition.
“What happened?” he groaned. “My head—my whole body aches. And what’s that stuff dripping onto my hand . . . ”
He raised his hand. It was covered with blood. “Where the hell is this coming from?” Groggy, he scrutinized his hands, arms, and face but found no cuts. Only then did he realize the blood wasn’t his.
“Melanie?” He rose up on his elbows and looked around. “Melanie! Melanie!”
No answer. He looked up to see a huge stark white cloud above him. “What is that? I can’t be in heaven.” He wiped his eyes and realized it was a mass of white fabric. A large red stain was spreading across it.


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A Scandal at Crystalline
An Early Mystery Book 1 

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Chandler Hammond’s wife says he and his hot Iraqi girlfriend skipped out of their Maine town of Finderne with his company’s millions. But his sister thinks his wife murdered him and hires detective James Early and his teenage son Tikki to find the truth. A Scandal at Crystalline follows them through an intriguing maze of unexpected encounters: financial shenanigans, two beautiful women who were sleeping with each other (and with Chandler Hammond), a police psychic, and a runaway kid in a remote mountain cabin. But things turn dark when their investigation forces them to consider the unimaginable—the sinister side of raku pottery.


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​The house loomed before him like a haunted old mansion in the near dark. Early crouched in the bushes to look for signs of life. Siri’s word was unreliable; he needed to make sure nobody was around.
After a while he stood up to stretch, long arms reaching toward the skinny last quarter of the moon. The horns of the moon our ancestors called it. Not the best cover for burglary but his order for a dark moon had been placed too late.
“Treachery.” That was Amber’s word. She probably never thought of him as the treacherous one, burglarizing the Hammond mansion like this. As for the Sneak Thief card, here was Early doing just what her reading had indicated. Coincidence? Maybe. But sometimes there was just no explanation for her uncanny accuracy.
He watched the house for another hour before he figured that anybody who was going to show up would be here by now. His private investigator training and a summer job at a locksmith’s shop had given him the tools to neutralize simple home alarms; he slipped across the dark patio and disconnected the alarm’s power supply. This time a summer job had been more useful than his education was—life could be ironic. Sucking in a deep breath he walked over to the French doors to Hammond’s office and turned the knob.
The doors weren’t locked.
A shudder shook him. Unlocked doors were common in Maine but finance guys weren’t usually this freewheeling—maybe with other peoples’ money but certainly not with their own. Had Siri forgotten to lock up? Or did the Hammonds rely on that monster safe to keep their belongings, well, safe? Both of them seemed lackadaisical about security but that made Early’s black-bag job easier. He wasn’t complaining.
He opened the door, slowly placed one large foot into the darkened room to test the floor, and heard Creak.
“Damn,” he whispered. One would think a guy with Hammond’s money could keep his house in better shape. Maybe the burglar alarm didn’t even work.
Fortunately, nobody was around to hear the noise. Early exhaled and stalked over to the huge, heavy safe. The words First National Bank gleamed gold on the door under the beam of his tiny flashlight.
The safe was too old for security measures like time locks. Early knew most people don’t lock their safes or they write down the combination somewhere like on the edge of a desk drawer. But he had no need to search for the combination—his video had caught Siri’s fingers as she dialed. Later, he had picked out the numbers by replaying the video in slow motion.
He spun the dial with the combination he had observed and the safe gave it up. He pulled the heavy door open and swept the light around the cavernous interior. It was darker than the inside of a pocket until a gleam at the back of the lone shelf caught his eye.
Siri had moved the flash drive. That wasn’t a good sign—it could mean she had erased the files. He grabbed the drive and held it under his flashlight to reveal the letters CAD written on its side in magic marker.
Crystalline Art Distributorship. Pay dirt.
He slipped the drive into his pocket and swept the beam across the shelf again but came up empty. He walked over to the oak desk, pulled out a small screwdriver, jimmied the lock, and rifled through the drawers. At least Siri’s word here was good: he found energy bars, pencils, paper, and other miscellaneous items. But no laptop.
In a bottom drawer, he discovered a fat brown envelope containing what appeared to be ticket stubs. He pulled one out and identified it as a stub from a postal money order. Hadn’t Honoria said she received dividends by money order? Early remembered thinking at the time that Hammond was a financial professional—why wouldn’t he use the customary checks? Maybe because he had no corporate bank account. But why didn’t he? The logic ran in circles.
The envelope held many stubs. Early wondered how far back they went. He stuffed the envelope into his pocket and gave the safe a last going-over but the single shelf was as empty as a roadside beer bottle. He rapped his knuckles against the safe’s back wall and heard the ring of solid steel. No concealed compartment there. He swept the light beam over the safe’s floor which was also barren, then dropped and crawled inside. At the very back, he found a sizeable object covered by a blanket. He pulled the blanket off to reveal a large cooler.
What the hell? In a case full of oddities here was another one. Why stash a cooler in a safe? Beer wasn’t that expensive. Maybe Hammond was trying to keep the hired help from dipping into his pricey liquor but anybody living in a place like this could afford a liquor locker. Maybe Hammond liked really cold cash.
After much grunting, tugging, and cussing, Early had to admit the cooler was too heavy for him to move. Then he noticed a bit of clearance between the cooler and the shelf above it. He placed his flashlight into his mouth, raised the lid as far as he could, and slid his hand inside. Something under his fingers felt smooth and cold. An ice slab? Imagine that, ice in a cooler.
He tried grasping the cold object. It was too slippery, but drying his gloved hand on his shirt gave him enough traction to raise it. He slid his hand underneath and heard the crackling sound of a plastic bag. He squeezed. What he felt was long and lumpy like a . . . finger? Something hard seemed to encircle it. Something in the shape of a ring--
A loud click startled him. Somebody was unlocking the front door.


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Amazon best-selling author Roslyn Reid's first mystery, A Scandal at Crystalline, debuted to almost a dozen five-star reviews on Amazon. It reveals the sinister side of raku pottery and kicks off a series of quirky mysteries set in Maine, featuring Black private detective James Early and his teenage son Tikki. The Spiricom, second book in the series, debuts in September 2021.
Reid lives with her corgi, Great Pyrenees, and husband in Downeast Maine, where she gardens, lifts weights, and hikes. A former model, she contributed to Llewellyn's annual almanacs for several decades and has written for a few of the local newspapers. She is a member of the Author's Guild, has a blog on Goodreads, an author page on allauthor.com, a LinkedIn account, and several boards on Pinterest. You can follow her on Bookbub, or on Twitter as @the_moonshadow.


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35 Comments
Kari B
9/24/2021 07:13:11 am

These sound like exciting mysteries will enough twists and turns to keep the reader furiously flipping pages until the end.

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Marcy Meyer
9/24/2021 12:22:16 pm

The cover looks really good. Thanks for sharing.

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Jamie Martin link
9/24/2021 01:00:07 pm

Do you have any advice for new writers?

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Roslyn Reid link
10/7/2021 07:51:32 am

Keep writing & don't stop querying! Also, a good editor is priceless.

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wendy hutton
9/24/2021 01:17:48 pm

sounds like an interesting book

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Debbie P
9/24/2021 01:18:16 pm

This sounds like a really good read! Cool cover.

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Wendy Jensen
9/24/2021 02:06:34 pm

The book details sound like a great mystery.

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Sherry
9/24/2021 03:21:43 pm

I really like the covers and the excerpt.

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Beyond Comps
9/24/2021 04:05:17 pm

Great cover!

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Thomas Gibson
9/24/2021 04:49:18 pm

Cover looks awesome! Excerpt is intriguing. Great work!

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Susan Smith
9/24/2021 06:22:40 pm

Sounds like a good book. I like the cover and excerpt.

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Ann Fantom
9/24/2021 07:12:05 pm

This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

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David Basile
9/24/2021 07:14:54 pm

This sounds like a good book

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Terri Quick
9/24/2021 08:06:37 pm

Cool cover

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bn100
9/24/2021 09:46:42 pm

nice excerpt

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Danielle Day
9/25/2021 01:05:11 am

I like it!

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Abigail Gibson
9/25/2021 03:03:57 pm

Sounds like a great book!

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LYNN CLAYTON
9/26/2021 03:39:38 pm

OH THIS LOOKS GOOD

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Dave Gibb
9/26/2021 06:05:31 pm

wow looks awesome

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beth shepherd
9/27/2021 01:26:09 pm

This looks like a great read! Thank you

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angela heerde
9/27/2021 09:38:40 pm

i like book details.

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Karin
9/28/2021 06:15:51 am

Great excerpts

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Karen M
9/29/2021 11:37:04 am

Excerpt sounds exciting.

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Roslyn Reid link
10/7/2021 07:54:36 am

Love the comments! Thanx everybody! You can vote for the cover over at AllAuthor.com's Cover of the Month contest, https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-month/

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Leslie Price
10/15/2021 06:34:08 pm

As a displaced New Englander, I'll read any mystery set in Maine! Added to my TBR pile.

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Roslyn Reid link
10/17/2021 08:04:33 am

TY! And come on home some time! :)

Roz

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Daniel M
10/23/2021 12:03:00 pm

like the cover

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Renata
10/23/2021 10:33:46 pm

Sounds good!

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Jennifer Mckelvey-Galindo
10/23/2021 10:42:30 pm

Strength after loss is a great hit!

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Debbi Wellenstein
10/24/2021 10:43:18 am

I enjoyed the excerpt. Thank you for the giveaway!

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Marie Cantelli
10/24/2021 06:26:41 pm

Sounds like an awesome read and love the cover!

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Betty Curran
10/24/2021 06:54:27 pm

This sounds like a very intriguing book that would keep anyone involved to the very last page.

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Jen R
10/24/2021 09:58:39 pm

Sounds like a great book to read . Looking forward to adding this to my "must read' pile.

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Sand
10/24/2021 10:30:12 pm

Sounds like a great book!

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Roslyn Reid link
10/24/2021 11:43:48 pm

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway & left a comment! The first book in the Early Mysteries series,"A Scandal at Crystalline," is still only 99 cents on Amazon - happy reading!

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