Here’s the set-up for Cathyrn Grant’s Fatal Cut, just $1.99 on Kindle:

In Fatal Cut, the first novella in this ghostly psychological suspense series, a man is brutally murdered in the church parking lot.  Madison Keith is the only one not surprised by the identity of the killer.  She has witnessed first hand the buried resentments and bitter hearts of the people at her new job, not to mention the lingering passions of those who have passed on.

Both the living and the dead like to reveal their secrets to Madison. As the administrative assistant in the basement office of a suburban church, she gets plenty of opportunity to hear from both.

Print length for this novella is approximately 100 pages.

From the reviewers:

Cathryn Grant has given her protagonist Madison Keith a delightful voice. Madison is smart, witty, and more than a little curious–perfect for a church receptionist. She’s also tattooed, pierced, and unusually perceptive. In this first of a series, Grant introduces us to Madison’s particular brand of detection and mystery solving. Fatal Cut is a page-turning tale that will satisfy, but leave you hungry for the next one.  –  Linda Cassidy Lewis

Cathryn Grant invested much of the first half of her novella to developing the quirks and characteristics of her main character so that by the mid-point of this short book, I felt like I knew – and liked – Madison Keith enough to want to continue reading more stories featuring her. At that point, the other characters began to take shape for me and the whodunit and why aspects came to the fore so that the novella moved quickly to a a believable and satisfying ending. I like the novella form for its necessarily sharp focus and definitely am looking forward to the next Madison Keith venture!   –  Natasha Alexander

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Cathryn Grant’s short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines. Her short story, “I Was Young Once”received an honorable mention from Joyce Carol Oates in the 2007 Zoetrope All-story Short Fiction contest.

Reviewers have said they “stayed up late finishing” her first novel, THE DEMISE OF THE SOCCER MOMS.    Her second novel, BURIED BY DEBT, will be released in November 2011.

She is also the author of the Madison Keith Psychological Suspense Novella series – murder, ghosts, and soul mates – FATAL CUT (#1), SHALLOW WATER (#2 Sept 2011).

One reader said this about her Suburban Noir fiction: “She makes the mundane menacing.”

Visit her online at CathrynGrant.com or email her at cathryn.m.grant[at]gmail.com