Kenora Tedesco's mother dies suddenly. Her husband leaves her. And when she blurts the wrong thing to the wrong person, she loses her job. Left with a rusting sedan, dwindling savings, and a lakeside fixer-upper, Kenora is forty-two, with no roadmap or safety net for starting over.
A last-chance interview delivers an unlikely lifeline: a job as a private investigator. The former library manager doesn't anticipate running up against a lovesick embezzler who steals her identity, being declared dead by a drugstore pharmacist or being drawn into an international inventory fraud.
Then there’s Jake Barclay, a retired police commander and her new boss, the first man in years to make her weak in the knees. Along the way to solving the tangle of investigations, her rookie missteps could threaten more than her career. Kenora learns what she must do to succeed: play by company rules, ditch the fear, trust her judgment, and don't look back.
Kenora Reinvented is a fast-paced coming of middle-age story with crime, mystery and steamy second-chance romance. There's a diverse cast of strong female and male protagonists who each face conflicts, relationship challenges and finding-their-way issues. The supporting characters are villainous, quirky or just plain out-to-lunch.
The universal themes of resilience, second chances and triumph over self-doubt are conversation-starters. With action and intrigue in every chapter, this intelligent contemporary novel propels readers into a binge-worthy whodunit that will keep readers engaged until the last page.
