Two-Faced

Twins #1

by Elena Santangelo

Gen Ziegler left her home in tiny Mount Ebal, Pennsylvania right after college, to get as far away from her mirror-image twin, Sara, and their dysfunctional relationship as possible. Now, five years later, Dr. Ziegler teaches at the University of Arizona and assists the Tucson Police as a forensic psychologist. Yet, all her life Gen's had clairvoyant flashes, telling her when Sara was in danger. One new vision is so vivid, Gen flies home to find that her sister is the primary witness and suspect in a grisly stabbing death. The last person Sara wants around is Gen, but if the real killer isn't found, one or both sisters will become victims themselves.

Genres: Mystery

218 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 2011

About the author

ELENA SANTANGELO pens the Possessed Mystery series, including Agatha Award finalist BY BLOOD POSSESSED. The series features laid-off office clerk turned ghostbuster, Pat Montella, and her 91 year-old sidekick, Miss Maggie. These novels combine murder, ghosts, history, and a protagonist brought up on Italian cooking and superstitions. Latest in the series is FEAR ITSELF, in which a ghost from the Great Depression helps Pat solve a present day murder in her hometown.

Elena's Twins Mystery Series begins with the novel TWO-FACED, which introduces Gen Ziegler, forensic psychologist, and her mirror-image twin, Sara. In THE TODD CHRONICLES, Todd MacBride, a geeky psych student, appoints himself as Gen Ziegler's "Dr. Watson" as he puts a hilarious spin on her Tucson cases. The series continues most recently with DOUBLE CROSS, when the sisters become stranded in a West Texas town, surrounded by secrets, outlaws, danger, and murder.

DAME AGATHA'S SHORTS is Elena's armchair companion to Christie's more than one hundred and fifty short stories. DAME AGATHA'S SHORTS won the 2009 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction and is an Anthony Award and Macavity Award finalist.

Elena's short stories have been published in the United States and Japan and most are available individually on Kindle. You can also find 16 of them in the SHORT CUTS TO MAYHEM anthology. She co-edited the short story anthologies, DEATH KNELL IV and DEATH KNELL V.

YESTERDAY, TODAY & FOREVER is a non-fiction book about Elena's uncle, Joseph B. Chicco, the journal he kept while serving aboard the U.S.S. Mobile in 1945 during World War II, and the PTSD that plagued him the rest of his life.

Contact her at www.elenasantangelo.com"

Reviews

[Maggie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Years ago, I read her ghost novels featuring Pat Montella. I really enjoyed those and put this book on my TBR list. What took me so long to read Two-Faced? It was a top-notch story with plenty of mystery and personality.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved that the book was exciting with lively characters who had their share of eccentricities. This is book #1 of a series. I liked it so much that I read Book #2, which I enjoyed even more. There is a Book #3, and I also want to read that.