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FalconClaw – 401 To Kingston

The Seventh Entry in the FalconClaw Detective Series

When broken mirrors and shattered psyches collide at a place called Rockwood, what’s reflected to a killer and his pursuers will mesh time and distance, fact and fiction, sanity and madness, and the irreconcilable paradoxes of the human mind.

After a string of murders along the Provincial Route 401, between Montreal and Kingston, spanning five decades, a retired serial killer kills again, but why?

As Montrealer, Candace Weatherby, a former Philly Police consultant, struggles to cope with the memory of her kidnapping at the hands of a wannabe Russian Oligarch, she and her retired Philly Cop boyfriend, Bones Sullivan, are cryptically drawn into the decades-old, unsolved murder investigation. 

After Bones and Candace are brought in to assist authorities in Montreal and Kingston, Candace, tired of living in the shadow of a North Philly legend, wants to break free, but will Bones’ dead, former partner, Frank Collazo, allow her to go it alone?

Enjoy a preview of the seventh spine-tingling addition of the acclaimed FalconClaw series!

Prologue – Gille Mhoire

“The leaves turn early north of the lake.”

“And as for one’s mental state? That does, too. And the winds? Oh, the winds… when they come calling off Niigani-gichigami and the cold takes hold of you, a man is no longer a man… but rather, reduced to his circumstance, his lot, and what would become of it.”

“I’ve looked out over the lake from the shores of Wolfe Island as a boy, from the windows in the soft-padded cells of the Rockwood Asylum as a teen, and through the barred windows of the riotous Kingston Penitentiary as a young man… and today, as a man with only one life to give… and one yet still to take.”

“The Canadian cold is like no other, and the rich velvet snow, in all of its abundance, when stained with life, is a shade of red worthy of one’s admiration.”

“The Haves have replaced the Have Nots, and the City of Kingston has changed forever. And my story? Well, it’s all but forgotten. The choppy waters of the Lower Lake, however, remain… as will my name. It will remain.”

“Named by my mother, her life taken by one she’d given, I serve now only myself and that of my legacy. My light, which shone once bright, will shine down on a woman with a fury brighter than her heritage, her wealth, and her self-perceived nobility. May I remind you all, she is no Canuck, and her fame is undue, unjust, and unwarranted. I shall take those meek and remind them of the fear I once bestowed. The mighty, whose stomachs I once turned, and the relegated, who paid me little mind, will be given a glimpse into the hell that once maligned the 401.”

“The woman, known as Weatherby, shall witness a terror she has never known, a horror she has never seen, and a feeling she will never shed. Her memories will be only of me and of my deeds. For I am the worst that Canada has to offer, and she will see behind the broken man, his broken psyche, and the broken mirror we two shall forever share.”

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Originally from Ohio, by way of New York City, Michael is a resident of Suwanee, GA. Michael Cook is a father to four children, a husband, a brother, and a friend.

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