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The Kira Brightwell Quick Cases Starter Collection - cover

The Kira Brightwell Quick Cases Starter Collection

Jacquelyn Smith

Publisher: WaywardScribe Press

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Summary

Kira Brightwell just wants to mind her own business. Maybe go for a run, or hone her MMA skills while blasting some Nine Inch Nails. She never goes looking for trouble.

But somehow, trouble always seems to find her. Usually the missing woman or dead body kind.

...Good thing she knows how to use her wits, as well as her fists.

Dive into the ongoing cases of a clever detective who kicks ass in this starter collection of early, stand-alone Kira Brightwell shorts by the author of the Mackenzie Quinn mysteries, Jacquelyn Smith. (These adventures complement the novels of the Kira Brightwell mystery series, and all take place before the first novel, Split Decision.) This collection includes:

Tale of the Tape: A Kira Brightwell Short Novel
Striking Distance: A Kira Brightwell Short Story
Under Wraps: A Kira Brightwell Short Novel

Tale of the Tape: A Kira Brightwell Short Novel

A bootleg Nine Inch Nails cassette tape.

Weird thing for Kira to find abandoned by a sewer grate on her way to school.

The hand-drawn NIN logo in marker catches Kira’s eye. Who tossed the tape? And why?

Kira pockets it, of course. Seems a shame to leave it in the gutter. Who knows what kind of extra tracks she might find on it?

...Now she only needs to figure out a way to play the thing.

A twisting, short novel of Kira’s high school past from the Kira Brightwell Quick Cases mystery series.

Striking Distance: A Kira Brightwell Short Story

Kira Brightwell stands at a crossroads. Her college days lie behind her, but her future remains a mystery, waiting to be solved.

A job already awaits her at her father’s office—the easy, parent-approved option. But Kira wants something different. Something more. She needs to get away to figure out what.

Except Kira’s future hangs in the balance in more ways than one…

In the crime-filled adventures of the Kira Brightwell Quick Cases mystery series, “Striking Distance” focuses on the event that changes Kira’s life forever, and sets her on the path to becoming an infamous problem solver for hire.

(Originally published under the pen name Kat Irwin.)

Under Wraps: A Kira Brightwell Short Novel

Halloween. A time for costumes and crime.

Neither hold interest for Kira Brightwell. She only wants to find a way to move on with her life after the trauma she endured three months ago. (That, and track down the man responsible.)

But the local police receive an anonymous tip with a growing list of decrypted names—a list that threatens to shake the suburban, California town to its core.

...And just like that, Kira’s world gets turned upside down.

A stand-alone short novel of Kira’s recent past in the Kira Brightwell Quick Cases mystery series. If you love murder, mystery, and mayhem, grab this book.

(Originally published under the pen name Kat Irwin.)
Available since: 11/23/2023.

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