An enormous thank you to all the amazing early readers of this book. Their help and support have been phenomenal. I’m hoping they’ll stick with me for the next book! Thanks, as well, to my amazing Booktrope team members. I couldn’t ask for a better group of humans to turn my flights of fancy into real books. Thanks to Jim Herrick of Motion Laboratories for sharing his knowledge with me about electrical power distribution systems. And a special thank you to Marilyn Peters and JeriLyn Alderman, who together made a real Cosmos bracelet that exists in more than just my imagination.
I’m grateful to Jeff, Kiera, Mom, and all the rest of my loving family and friends, who have supported and encouraged me through this and many of my other crazy creative endeavors. Love you guys.
BOOKS IN THE GLASS BEAD MYSTERY SERIES
HIGH STRUNG
After inheriting a house in Seattle, Jax O’Connell is living the life of her dreams as a glass beadmaker and jewelry designer. When she gets an offer to display her work during a bead shop’s opening festivities, it’s an opportunity Jax can’t resist—even though Rosie Perez, the store’s owner, is the surliest person Jax has ever met. The weekend’s events become a tangled mess when a young beadmaker is found dead nearby and several oddball bead enthusiasts are suspects. Jax must string together the clues to clear her friend Tessa’s name—and do it before the killer strikes again.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Janice Peacock decided to write her first mystery novel after working in a glass studio full of colorful artists who didn’t always get along. They reminded her of the odd, and often humorous, characters in the murder mystery books she loved to read. Inspired by that experience, she combined her two passions and wrote High Strung: A Glass Bead Mystery, the first book in the Glass Bead Mystery Series featuring glass beadmaker Jax O’Connell.
When Janice isn’t writing about glass artists-turned-amateur-detectives, she makes glass beads using a torch, designs one-of-a-kind jewelry, and makes sculptures using hot glass. An award-winning artist, her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, and in private collections worldwide.
Janice lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, three cats, and seven chickens. She has a studio full of beads...lots and lots of beads.
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Table of Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CONTENTS
DEDICATION
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOUR
THIRTY-FIVE
THIRTY-SIX
THIRTY-SEVEN
THIRTY-EIGHT
THIRTY-NINE
FORTY
FORTY-ONE
FORTY-TWO
FORTY-THREE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BOOKS IN THE GLASS BEAD MYSTERY SERIES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CONNECT WITH JANICE PEACOCK
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