First Goodreads review 🥳📖

My first official review for my debut self-published novel, Deja Vu!

If you like mystery/thriller novels, give mine a read 🥲🫶

Available on Amazon & Kindle!

Sypnosis: Is it a gift or is it a curse? Clairvoyant, Damien Russo has been contemplating that question all his life. Working freelance as an investigative journalist, him and his detective brother, Leo, cross paths once again as the sudden death of wealthy businessman, William Herald, sets off a series of murders and strange occurrences across the city. As William Herald’s son Will goes missing and another body shows up, Damien, Leo, and his brother’s partner Raina, will soon find out that the key to solving this mystery lies within questions unanswered from a similar case connected to the city’s past. With this case drawing a thin line between ally and foe, Damien must put his own demons aside and face the consequences of his detective uncle’s past, while investigating a conspiracy far bigger than him and his family.

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