Bewitched

Sean Colbeth Investigates #5

by Christopher H. Jansmann

Twenty years and a lifetime ago, Windeport Police Chief Sean Colbeth had his teenage heart badly broken when the girl he thought he loved dumped him for another guy in the most dramatic manner possible. Young love burns hot and fast, to be sure, but it wasn’t until Suzanne Kellerman stepped into his life that Sean figured out just how deep the wounds to his soul had been, and how carefully he’d been hiding them from the world.

And from himself.

On a sultry July 4th holiday weekend two decades later, a chance discovery in one of the last standing icehouses in the county threatens to reopen those very wounds in the cruelest possible way. Tantalizing clues emerge that connect whatever happened in that lonely spot along the St. Mark’s River to the disappearance of the very guy responsible for Sean’s torment all those years earlier, a long forgotten cold case that continues to haunt his predecessor long after retirement.

Forced to revisit his childhood in a village where people have known each other for generations, Sean tries to separate fond memories from harsh realities as he pursues a killer that never expected to be hunted.

307 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 4, 2023

About the author

Born and raised in Maine, Christopher H. Jansmann spent nearly three decades as a professional IT nerd before recalling a childhood ambition to become an author. He quickly set about correcting that oversight and published his first novel, Blindsided, in 2020, launching what would become his signature style of blending memorable characters with vibrant locations. Chris is the author of the Coastal Maine-set Sean Colbeth Investigates series and the interconnected Southern California-based Vasily Korsokovach Investigates novels.

Despite his love for the Northeast, Chris escaped the cold for sunny Arizona where he currently resides with his beautiful wife and a Shar-Pei mix that insists on being walked regularly.