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The Foulest Things

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Get ready for a thrilling new mystery series from the author of The Honeybee Emeralds.

Ottawa, January 2010. Canada's historic Dominion Archives.

Junior archivist Jess Novak is struggling to find her footing in her new role. Her colleagues undermine her, her boss hates her, and her only romantic prospect hides a whiskey bottle in his desk. Desperate to make a good impression, Jess's luck begins to change when she discovers a series of mysterious letters chronicling life in Paris at the start of the Great War. Thinking she has landed her ticket to career advancement, Jess dives into research in Dominion's art vault, where she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues.

As if finding a corpse isn't frightening enough, Jess soon notices she is being stalked by a menacing figure. It's only when Jess makes the connection between the letters, the murder, and a priceless Rembrandt that she realizes just how high the stakes are. Can Jess salvage her career, unravel a World War I–era mystery, shake off her ominous stalker, solve a murder, and—oh yeah—save her own life before it's too late?

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 22, 2022
      On a cold day in January 2010, Jess Novak, the narrator of this cleverly plotted series launch from Tector (The Honeybee Emeralds), settles into her Ottawa office for her first assignment at Canada’s Dominion Archives, where she has a one-year probationary contract. She is to read and catalogue business documents belonging to the estate of Henry Jarvis, a former cabinet minister. Hidden inside the cover of a ledger she’s examining is a letter dated Sept. 20, 1914, to Victoria Jarvis in Alberta from Jeremy Crawford in Paris. After determining that Victoria was Henry’s niece and Jeremy a minor painter, Jess decides to search for more information with an eye to writing a scholarly paper that would secure her a permanent position at the archive. While in the art vault at the archives’ conservation facility, she finds the body of Paul Thibodeau, one of the facility’s commissionaires. Was the killer one of her new colleagues? Could the death be connected to Jess’s research? Letters between Victoria and Jeremy provide lively counterpoint to Jess’s dangerous search for a long-missing Rembrandt painting related to their correspondence. Readers will eagerly look forward to Jess’s further adventures.

    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2022

      Archivist Tector (The Honeybee Emeralds) writes what she knows with her second novel, an intriguing inside look at archival politics. Jess Kendall has a one-year contract with Dominion Archives in Ottawa, Canada, but she's not starting out on the right foot. She nearly made the team late for an auction, but, in the end, they were able to win the Jarvis ledgers. When working with the ledgers, Jess uncovers letters written in 1914 from artist Jeremy Cranford to Victoria Jarvis. As Jess researches the couple, she finds clues about an unknown masterpiece and hopes to keep it a secret so she can publish a paper. That is not all she finds, for she stumbles across a body in the art vault. Now Jess is tangled in a murder investigation as well as her own secret research. Contending with murder and backstabbing coworkers, it's hard to keep a secret without putting herself and her career in jeopardy. VERDICT A fascinating mystery for readers who enjoyed Eva Jurczyk's The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.--Lesa Holstine

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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