A Repair Café Mystery · Book TwoDead Short, November 14.
Friends,
The next book has a name. Dead Short, Book 2 of The Repair Café Mysteries, arrives on Kindle on November 14, and the pre-order is open now. The story is set in Gault Mills in December, Connie's second Christmas there. Ten years ago a lineman died under the town's Christmas display, and the display has been dark since. The council has voted to light it again, and every foot of the old wiring comes to Connie's bench first, to be passed or condemned.
On the cover there is a shop window, and in it a star of weathered gray metal with its bulbs lit. I will have more to say between now and the fourteenth. The announcement, with the cover described in full, is below.
Delilah
From the Bench
Announcing Dead Short
Dead Short, the second Repair Café Mystery, arrives on Kindle November 14, 2026, and the pre-order is open today. The story is set in Gault Mills at Christmas, and it begins with nine crates of old lights.
Also in the notebook
- The Ticket Stays Open Six weeks after Fixed to Death launched, a plain thank-you, a note on what this blog has been since March, and why the series keeps a ticket open.
- The Town and the River Gault Mills is a town I am inventing for the mysteries I write. The first fact I settled about it is that it starts at the river.
On the last night of November, the council voted to relight the town's Christmas display.
From Dead Short