DELILAH FABER

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BEHIND THE BOOK · OCTOBER 27, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
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.

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Archive · October 2026

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Curated trails through the notebook
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What this notebook is, and the ideas the whole book rests on.
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Building Gault Mills
The invented town, board by board — its river, its mill, its streets.
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Broken things on the bench, and what their wear quietly confesses.
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Out November 14 · Pre-order now

Dead Short

Ten years ago a lineman named Roland Strom died under the Gault Mills Christmas display. The county ruled that he went up after his own lights in an ice storm and that the storm did the rest. The second Repair Café Mystery.

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