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With all my posts about genealogy, you may be wondering if I am doing any creative writing. Oh yes! I am busy on the final touches to a new series: Urban Mysteries.

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The five mysteries are set in the Maritimes, in cities where I have lived or worked: Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and Fredericton and Saint John, in New Brunswick. They are adventure stories as much as mysteries, although the protagonist in each solves a problem encountered. The main character in each story is a young woman, independent and resourceful.

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The five books are also Meniscus Peripherals, meaning they occur in the same universe as my Meniscus Science Fiction Series: each of the books mentions an alien abduction but the rest of the abduction story is found in one of the Meniscus Science Fiction books.

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There will be five books in this first set of the Urban Mysteries Series:

Office Green … in Halifax, a young woman who cares for office plants, crosses the paths of some unsavoury characters;

Hollow Hotel … in Saint John, a climber takes on the outside of an abandoned hospital and must save her two friends after a terrible fall;

Roundabout … in Fredericton, an artist, who is recording life in a new city traffic circle, encounters … well, more unsavoury characters;

City Grotesque … in Saint John, an artist, working on a mural for tourists, takes part in a contest to find look-alike for sixteen stone carvings on one of the Uptown buildings;

Dancing with Trees … in Fredericton, an artist, drawing some of the city trees, stumbles on a mysterious dancer who is connected to a local urban legend.

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Each of the five Urban Mysteries is less than 20,000 words, so they are properly called ‘novellas.’ All five will be released in December. I’ll keep you up to date!

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All my best,

Jane (a.k.a. Alexandra)