Sometimes, you just have to make decisions.

This can be a process fraught with difficulties, both necessary and irrelevant. Should I have yoghurt or toast for breakfast? One is good for my probiotics, whatever they are, but requires some fruit to be palatable. Fruit has sugar – will that impact my glycemic index? A piece of toast lathered in butter, and/or bakeapple jam from Newfoundland, has carbs, even the nice nut-based minimal flour bread that we make. And the seedy bits get stuck between my teeth. Sigh.

Decisions.

Then there are the easy ones, such as the one we are facing now. Do I keep myself informed by watching the news, or do I keep myself sane?

I made that decision easily enough. This blog is about my new book.

Scammers is my fifth book, and the third Gavin Rashford novel. It is chronologically based in the period immediately after Missing, so readers will (hopefully!) enjoy the continuation of that story. The setting changes, however, and this novel is set primarily on Prince Edward Island.

Here, Northwest Mounted Police officer Gavin Rashford goes to the Canadian Maritimes with two goals: to have a great holiday ‘with the band’ as up-and-coming fiddling superstar Amanda Robicheau’s groupie/boyfriend, and to see if he can persuade the Halifax Police to assist him with an ongoing cold case – the search for Marc Claydon continues.

Unfortunately, neither of these things are going to be quite as straightforward as he hoped. For one thing, Rashford is really all too prone to stumble over and into other people’s cases. And crimes. And love affairs.


At least the music is good.

A book launch will be held later this fall (details to be announced) and if they accept my application, I will be selling (& signing) copies at the Artisan Christmas Market on 10 December and 17 December. Meanwhile, Scammers is available as an e-book from my website, http://www.jtgoddard.com and as a printed book at Bookmark (Charlottetown) as well as on Amazon. [If the link doesn’t work, look up ‘Books Goddard Scammers’ for the best results – and they do a Kindle version as well.]

Scammers is published by Underhill Books and a huge thanks to Victoria for another great cover design.
Meanwhile, head deeply buried in as much as I can find of the red sand for which PEI is famous, I grapple with my next book – should it be another Rashford novel, or should I dip into the dystopian darkness which surrounds us?

Decisions, decisions.