Book two of my Vice Report mystery series is available on Amazon!

Mona is burnt out. She wants an easy week. When her boss tries to assign a piece about a ‘murdered octopus’ to another reporter, she pulls rank and grabs it. It has all the hallmarks of a publicity stunt: weird, harmless, and easy.

Except someone did kill the octopus.

And when Mona meets Kim, a brilliant researcher studying a compound in octopus ink with potentially extraordinary medical applications, the silly story starts looking considerably less silly. It might even be life-changing.

Meanwhile, the true-crime hamster wheel at Vice Report does not slow down. There is a dead teenager, a witch who might be a killer, looting, a cop-involved shooting, and even espionage. But the deeper Mona digs, the more complex her supposedly easy story becomes—until she realizes she isn’t just reporting on the plot unfolding around her. She’s part of it.

Three Hearts is the second novel in the Vice Report Mystery series, featuring crime reporter Mona Breen.