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Tai and Trey join forces with financial crimes specialist (and Civil War buff) Seamus McCree to solve an intriguing puzzle involving a historical letter, a suspicious backstory, and a whole lot of money. Southern charm and Northern ingenuity meet in this story first published as a part of the Fifty Shades of Cabernet anthology.

When author James M. Jackson asked if I’d like to co-write a story with him, I was intrigued. I was a fan of his Seamus McCree series, which hits a lot of the same notes my Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver series does—he once described our books as “north of cozy, south of noir.” However, the deciding factor in my saying yes was that I like Jim, very much.

The fact that I still like him after not only co-writing a story, but also contributing a novelette to his Wolf Press anthology Lowcountry Crime says a lot about Jim as a human being and even more about him as a writer. Thoughtful, smart, funny, with a genuine commitment to putting out the very best work possible, he is an exemplary working partner.

So I said yes. Tai said yes. Even Trey said yes, though he took more convincing. And Seamus said yes, which meant all three sleuths were on board. All we needed was a crime for them to investigate, and we were off.

I hope that one day soon our characters find themselves yet again in the same neck of the woods, with nefarious doings on the ground. I think they’ll acquit themselves well, yet again.

Three sleuths. Two armies. One séance. Plus a very nice boxed Cabernet.