Speak Out Before You Die: A Double V Mystery

Guests arrive to attend a wedding in a snowbound mansion on New Year’s Eve. A discovered note warns of danger at midnight.

Juliet Van Allen’s wealthy widowed father is preparing to marry a much younger woman in the early hours of New Year’s Day, but when it appears that one of the guests might carry out a threat, she calls in her friend, ex-con Elmer Vartanian to post as a hired servant to help ferret out the clues and prevent a murder...but midnight is approaching and time is running out.

Speak Out Before You Die is the second book in the Double V Mysteries series set in New England in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

If you like the romance and charm of a classic film, this ＂cozy noir＂ will remind you of an era when dramatic stories were elegant, subtle, and grim family secrets are revealed over a game of charades in evening dress, while sipping a champagne cocktail.

Enter a world where the second half of the Twentieth Century begins with a toast, a chorus of Auld Lang Syne...and a promise of revenge.

Jacqueline T. Lynch’s novels, short stories, and non-fiction books on New England history and film criticism are available from many online shops as eBooks, audiobook, and paperback. She is also a playwright whose plays have been produced around the United States and in Europe, and has published articles and short fiction in regional and national publications. She writes Another Old Movie Blog on classic films, and the syndicated newspaper column Silver Screen, Golden Years. For more on Jacqueline T. Lynch’s book and projects, please see: www.JacquelineTLynch.com.