Restitution

by J.E. Friend

This is the third and final book in the Trans-Canada Killer Series

Maggie knows she's taking a chance getting close to Detective Tate, but no matter how hard she tries, she can't fight her attraction to him. Being with him, she'd have the family she desires and the possibility of a normal life, but first she has to put her inner demons to rest.

To give herself time to reflect, Maggies goes back on the road. Travelling the familiar highways, she reevaluates herself to determine if she can be the woman he deserves. Soon, Maggie realizes she's controlled the darkness before and can do it again.

Then the roses appeared. Now the hunter has become the hunted.

314 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2024

About the author

J. E. Friend is an emerging author of crime thrillers. She lives in the beautiful Annapolis Valley with her husband and their dog, Hartley. There she is able to enjoy the peace and solitude it offers so that she can write, whether in her writing room or on the deck. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Waterloo, where her field of study was psychology, this enables her to get into the mind of a killer when writing.
She is a member of Author’s Ink, a writing group in Nova Scotia, consisting of published and non published authors, and for the past few years she has also been The Municipal Liaison for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for her geographical area. NaNoWriMo promotes writers with an annual challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November, which she has won each year since 2017. She is an active member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia where she has reviewed and short listed emerging authors in several competitions.
Design of Deception is her first novel. She is currently working on a trilogy that follows a serial killer across Canada.