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    Murder at the Rosewood
    Murder at the Rosewood
    Murder at the Rosewood
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    Murder at the Rosewood

    By Linda Jordan

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    The night began like any other for Jessica. Baking at the Rosewood Cafe.

    The graveyard shift. All alone.

    Then she found the body.

    A well-crafted mystery for readers who love short fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2018
    ISBN9781386235972
    Murder at the Rosewood
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    Linda Jordan

    Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish sales person, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.

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      Murder at the Rosewood - Linda Jordan

      Murder at the Rosewood

      Murder at the Rosewood

      Linda Jordan

      Metamorphosis Press

      Copyright © 2017 by Linda Jordan

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      Murder at the Rosewood

      About the Author

      Murder at the Rosewood

      Jessica unlocked the back door of the cafe and locked it behind her quickly in the dimly lit coat room. It was pitch black outside and this part of town felt creepy at midnight. She punched her card into the time clock. Then in one smooth move extricated her jacket out from under her purse, hanging the jacket up on a hook. She grabbed a clean white apron and two clean white towels from their respective piles. They smelled like bleach, sterilized from their previous uses. Health Department clean.

      She walked through the dimly lit kitchen section and out into the cafe proper, putting her purse down on an empty table. The prevailing smell was tomato sauce. It must have been veggie lasagne for the special tonight. Her stomach roiled at the scent, but she ignored it. This was her breakfast and lasagne didn’t smell good.

      The cafe was a rather funky place. Built in two different storefronts, with two connecting doors, it seemed like a maze of areas. The

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