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Of the Woods

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A Nora Kincaid North Country Mystery
By Erica R. Buteau

The Peri Files · Book 1 · Case 001
Coming January 26, 2027

After threading her way through the Androscoggin After Dark books, Nora Kincaid takes the lead in a mystery series of her own.

Before Danny Ouellette vanishes, he texts his sister four words. Don’t trust the survey. The warning lands on the desk of Nora Kincaid, a forty-seven-year-old private investigator in Berlin, New Hampshire, who knows how much a man can hide in the margin of a deed.

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Description

Nora Kincaid schedules witness interviews before lunch. By afternoon, perimenopause can steal a perfectly good noun halfway through a question. Years with the New Hampshire State Police taught her to write things down. So when Céleste Ouellette climbs the stairs above a Berlin hardware store to ask Nora to find her brother, Nora opens a file.

Danny worked odd jobs in the North Country woods. He knew where the old survey pins were and which families had cut timber on either side of them. Now his truck sits empty off Route 110. At the county registry, a handwritten correction gives one family six extra acres. The sleeve that should hold the survey is empty.

Defense attorney Graham Dubois knows the family. He’s one of them. He also knows Nora well enough to sit down across from her at breakfast without waiting for an invitation. She might even have been glad to see him, if he hadn’t mentioned the size of the parcel before she told him.

Then a brick comes through Nora’s office window. Somebody knows exactly where to find her. She still doesn’t know where to find Danny.

Nora Kincaid’s story runs through Androscoggin After Dark. Anyone who thought she’d stay a supporting character should have known better. Now she has a series of her own. Of the Woods opens The Peri Files with a North Country mystery and a slow-burning attraction. Meeting Nora for the first time? Pull up a chair. She has a few questions.

Book details

Stearns Brook Press · January 26, 2027
Paperback · 380 pages · 5.25 × 8 inches · English
Paperback ISBN 979-8-9822447-2-7

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Weight 1.25 lbs
Dimensions 8 × 5.25 × 0.95 in
Edition

Paperback, Signed paperback

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