The Egg at Dumstreet
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[Completed] A U.S. expatriate is cast into a rainy, foggy corner of Europe. He went there on the pretense to work on his research, but he actually wanted to put as many miles as possible between himself and his ex.
The university he works for has found an apartment for him. It's in a house inhabited by a set of strange characters.
The mess begins with a broken egg.
And it continues with his neighbor being murdered.
A story somewhere between general fiction, mystery, gossip, romance, and humor.
Book of the Month (June 2017) over at Wattpad's official @AdultFiction profile.
First place in Mystery/Thrillers and second overall in the Iron Lace awards over at @ElisabethTepes profile.
First place in Mystery/Thrillers in the Blank Sheets Contest over at @Blank_Sheets .
First place under Mystery in the New Beginnings Writer Awards 2019
(Tagged as #adultfiction not for mature content--there's no real mature stuff here--but for sporting some characters that are thirty and older)
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