Title: A DARK HOMAGE — A Delilah Percy Powers Mystery

Author: Wendy Tyson (Vermont)

Format: Trade Paperback ($17.95) and eBook ($7.99)

Print ISBN-13: 978-1-64396-074-6

Publication date: January 20, 2020

Setting(s): Pennsylvania

Synopsis: A sordid sex tape. A venture capital firm. A secret society of women. A Catholic nun. All have one connection in common: Miriam Cross.

Miriam Cross, author, feminist and philanthropist, disappears from her Philadelphia home. A year later, a lonely recluse named Emily Cray is brutally murdered in her bed in a small Pennsylvania town. The police discover that Emily Cray and Miriam Cross were one and the same, but if they know who killed Miriam, they’re not sharing. Miriam’s niece Lucinda wants answers. She turns to the one woman she knows she can trust—private investigator Delilah Percy Powers.

As Delilah and her team of female detectives—a militant homemaker, an ex-headmistress, and a former stripper—investigate Miriam’s death, they uncover more questions than solutions. Why had the famous author been living under a new identity? Who were the women seen coming out of Emily Cray’s home at all hours of the night? Did Miriam have a mysterious lover? What was Miriam’s allegiance to an international secret society of high-powered women? What was the famous author doing with a New York venture capital firm?

As Delilah and her staff get closer to the truth, they become submerged in a criminal underworld of unfathomable cruelty and greed with implications that go far beyond the gruesome death of one woman or the boundaries of one country. Eventually Miriam’s fight for justice becomes Delilah’s own...until Delilah’s obsession with finding the truth proves just as deadly.

(Previously published as The Seduction of Miriam Cross.)

Praise for A DARK HOMAGE:

“A Dark Homage is masterful. Wendy Tyson’s novel is more than a compelling mystery, it’s a detailed, honest examination of tough-as-nails women who refuse to be intimidated, no matter how dark the story turns. Tyson skillfully turns from humor to tension in the span of a single sentence, and readers will be left wanting to know what happens next with Delilah and her team. A must read.” —E.A. Aymar, author of The Unrepentant

Meet the Author: Wendy Tyson is a writer, lawyer, and former therapist whose background has inspired her mysteries and thrillers. Wendy writes three mystery series, the bestselling Greenhouse Mystery Series, the Allison Campbell Mystery Series, and the Percy Powers Crime Series. Wendy’s short stories have appeared in literary journals, and she has short fiction in two anthologies, Betrayed and The Night of the Flood. Wendy is a member of International Thriller Writers and a contributing editor and columnist for International Thriller Writers' online magazines, The Big Thrill and The Thrill Begins. Originally from Philadelphia, Wendy and her family live in Vermont.

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