Not All Secrets

by Joseph Mulak

It was supposed to be an easy job.

All Tad Spanner had to do was pretend to be Denise's husband for one evening and find out who's blackmailing her.

But nothing's ever easy.

When Denise is found murdered at a family gathering, Spanner knows he's in over his head and decides to walk away from the case.

But someone won't let him.

Denise's partner, Marie, is unhappy with the police's lack of progress and insists Spanner continue his investigation.

Too late, he learns that accepting will put those cares about in danger.

Can he find the killer before it's too late?

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Published December 25, 2023

About the author

Joseph Mulak is the author of the novels Devil Music and Ashes to Ashes. He has also written several short which have appeared in such anthologies as Death Be Not proud (edited by Thom Erb), Dark Things II (edited by Ty Schwamberger), Dark Light (a charity anthology benefiting Ronald McDonald House), and Freedom of Screech (edited by Craig Spector). Some of these stories have been collected in Haunted whispers.

He lives and writes in North Bay, Ontario. He has four children and four grandchildren.

Reviews

[Coleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book through voracious readers only, in exchange for an honest review. Thoroughly enjoyed the premise, the short story and the nice pace. I always enjoy exploring Canadian content. Did not enjoy the poor editing. Seems an online checker would have helped or even an old fashioned proofread. Sloppy mistakes in sentence cohesion were downright annoying. In addition, twice characters were misidentified - once the dead person was identified as the daughter when she was the niece. Another time the dead person’s name was used instead of her living partner. I liked the protagonist but probably won’t revisit the series due to what I perceived as a lack of attention to the not so small details, already outlined.