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“No problem. One of our officers had a talk with him. Turns out he had a couple of priors, so you won’t be seeing him again for a while.”

“I’ll let Val know that she doesn’t need to worry about him.”

“I suppose you’re wondering what I’m doing here,” the detective said, taking off his dark-framed glasses and setting them on the table. He went from Clark Kent to Superman by simply removing his glasses.

“Yes, I am. Is this business? Personal?”

“A mixture. Your name popped up in the most unusual way. I was reading some applications for new recruits to the police force…”

I knew where this was headed.

“Did you come across an applicant named Ryan Shaw, by any chance?” I asked.

“As a matter of fact, I did. He lists you as a personal and professional reference.”

“I can vouch for him. Very professional. He helped solve a murder at a hotel in Portland.”

“And personal?”

“He’s a nice guy, an upstanding citizen.”

“Just how personal are you talking about?”

“Detective Grant, that’s none of your busi—“

“Zachary.”

“What exactly are you asking? Does the nature of my relationship with Ryan Shaw have any bearing on his application to the Seattle Police Department?”

“That depends.”

“Depends on what?”

“On whether you’d be willing to go out with me if Ryan moved to Seattle.”

“Are you asking me out?” Oh dear, life was getting complicated.

“Yes, I suppose I am,” said Zachary.

“And Ryan?”

“No, I don’t want to go out with him,” Zachary said, cracking a smile. “I think he’ll be moving up here if he accepts his job offer. And you, do you accept my offer?”

“Yes, I suppose I do.”

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

An enormous thank you to all the amazing early readers of this book. Their help and support have been phenomenal. I’m hoping they’ll stick with me for the next book! Thanks, as well, to my amazing Booktrope team members. I couldn’t ask for a better group of humans to turn my flights of fancy into real books. Thanks to Jim Herrick of Motion Laboratories for sharing his knowledge with me about electrical power distribution systems. And a special thank you to Marilyn Peters and JeriLyn Alderman, who together made a real Cosmos bracelet that exists in more than just my imagination.

I’m grateful to Jeff, Kiera, Mom, and all the rest of my loving family and friends, who have supported and encouraged me through this and many of my other crazy creative endeavors. Love you guys.

BOOKS IN THE GLASS BEAD MYSTERY SERIES

HIGH STRUNG

After inheriting a house in Seattle, Jax O’Connell is living the life of her dreams as a glass beadmaker and jewelry designer. When she gets an offer to display her work during a bead shop’s opening festivities, it’s an opportunity Jax can’t resist—even though Rosie Perez, the store’s owner, is the surliest person Jax has ever met. The weekend’s events become a tangled mess when a young beadmaker is found dead nearby and several oddball bead enthusiasts are suspects. Jax must string together the clues to clear her friend Tessa’s name—and do it before the killer strikes again.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janice Peacock decided to write her first mystery novel after working in a glass studio full of colorful artists who didn’t always get along. They reminded her of the odd, and often humorous, characters in the murder mystery books she loved to read. Inspired by that experience, she combined her two passions and wrote 
High Strung: A Glass Bead Mystery
, the first book in the Glass Bead Mystery Series featuring glass beadmaker Jax O’Connell.

When Janice isn’t writing about glass artists-turned-amateur-detectives, she makes glass beads using a torch, designs one-of-a-kind jewelry, and makes sculptures using hot glass. An award-winning artist, her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, and in private collections worldwide.

Janice lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, three cats, and seven chickens. She has a studio full of beads...lots and lots of beads.

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Table of Contents

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

CONTENTS

DEDICATION

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

TWENTY-THREE

TWENTY-FOUR

TWENTY-FIVE

TWENTY-SIX

TWENTY-SEVEN

TWENTY-EIGHT

TWENTY-NINE

THIRTY

THIRTY-ONE

THIRTY-TWO

THIRTY-THREE

THIRTY-FOUR

THIRTY-FIVE

THIRTY-SIX

THIRTY-SEVEN

THIRTY-EIGHT

THIRTY-NINE

FORTY

FORTY-ONE

FORTY-TWO

FORTY-THREE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BOOKS IN THE GLASS BEAD MYSTERY SERIES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CONNECT WITH JANICE PEACOCK

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