Mean Time

“. . . HITS THE FAST-PACED MARKS OF A THRILLER . . .” – Kirkus Reviews

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Jessica Luna has just been assigned to investigate her most baffling case yet involving the body of man found by a lakeside with his face mutilated. She takes refuge as she dives into this mystery which allows her to escape the high stress in her life: her mother has recently passed away, her father is despondent in grief, withering in a nursing home and she has just ended her long term relationship with Officer Troy Dilly, the man she still loves.

When Jessica relays the details of her case to her dying father, former Detective Santos Luna, she unknowingly gives him the will to live for this case bears a strong resemblance to the one that has haunted him for over thirty years and this becomes the catalyst for his miraculous recovery. Determined to discover the connection between these cases, Santos Luna enlists the help of his old partners, Detective Frank Dilly and Aurora Roberts, the beautiful psychic Santos secretly loved.

Together they follow along as Jessica Luna and Troy Dilly, her new partner and new problem, unravel a deadly puzzle involving four men in jeopardy with a heinous secret, an adolescent girl named Teddy missing for several years and a mysterious owl that knows the truth.