Crossed Genres releases their 1st novel: RJ Astruc's A Festival of Skeletons

Today Crossed Genres officially released their
first novel, New Zealand author RJ Astruc's A Festival of Skeletons!
The novel was edited by Outer Alliance member Kay T. Holt.

From the back cover:

"When Kamphor’s west end sees a series of prostitutes murdered, its
citizens are fearful that a serial killer known as the Knife has
returned. But the mortician Sink, owner of Kamphor’s finest morgue,
doesn’t believe that the Knife has resumed killing – and he’d prove
it, if his former student and current hateful rival Damien Torvault
wasn’t getting in the way.

Sink and his two apprentices, handsome-if-loony Joshua Finkle and
merkind Vona Urgarth, investigate the murders on their own. Sink’s
ability to tell exactly when and how a person will die just by
touching them earns him no friends, but it does yield some interesting
clues – as does Sink’s other gift. The one which incites him to wear
women’s clothing.

The investigation is further complicated when Joshua’s time is taken
up running a 15-Step program, and Vona becomes intrigued by a
repugnant yet strangely irresistible cook. Even Sink’s next-door
neighbor, Policewoman Arifia Fowles, seems hell-bent on not just
hindering Sink but arresting him, regardless of a crime.

But Sink presses urgently on, because he senses a strangeness in the
air: the magic-smell of necromancy, a magic that has long been illegal
in Kamphor… for it requires human sacrifice."

A Festival of Skeletons is now available in print and various ebook
formats. You can visit http://crossedgenres.com/serial for more info,
and to read some of the (overall excellent) reviews!

FoS main page: http://crossedgenres.com/serial
FoS cover art by Swedish artist Jonatan Iversen-Ejve:
http://crossedgenres.com/Pictures/FoScovFoScoversneakersneak.jpg
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