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She keeps her head down and cleans up messes. When the body count starts rising, will trying to make a living get her flushed?Julia Xero is stuck in survival mode. After losing the only person she loved, the introverted orphan longs to escape her toxic employment for the zen of crime and trauma scene decontamination. But when she lands her dream job and is called to a bloody rooftop with a decapitated corpse, she's horrified to come face to face with an otherworldly shark-toothed assassin.Furious to learn she's been enlisted by a clandestine race of beings against her will, Julia's dismay fountains when she finds out they implanted her with a neck bomb to ensure her lips stay tightly sealed. Fit to be tied, and her thunderous confrontation with her boss hitting a deadend, the stubborn young woman begins plotting ways to leave the energy-powered entities in her dust.Can she outwit an ancient civilization before her carotid goes boom?

A curious lack of corpses. A slew of snobbish suspects. Can this sightless amateur sleuth pinpoint a killer?Dallas, TX, 1930. Daiyu Wu refuses to be disadvantaged by her blindness. Navigating the world with help from her faithful companions, the young Chinese adventuress celebrates life with a strong thirst for knowledge. So when she smells burned garlic in a customer's garment, the clever laundress runs an experiment that reveals the dress was doused in arsenic.Determined to provide the unaware authorities with a clue in the murder case, Daiyu vows to chase down the garment's mysterious origins even though there have been no reports of a body. But as the links lead the immigrant girl higher into Texas's social echelons, she clashes with bigotry, short-sightedness, and a web of lies hamstringing her ability to investigate.Can she find fresh evidence before she's hung out to dry?Black Jade is the playful first book in the Daiyu Wu Mysteries cozy historical series. If you like witty heroines, clever twists, and feisty canines, then you'll love Gloria Oliver's period puzzle.Buy Black Jade to pit instinct against old money today!