The Talking Cure

Sean Joye Investigations, Book 2

Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure, a supernatural
Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Committed to an insane asylum, Violet Humphrey is isolated on
the Illinois prairie with only her own thoughts and a persistent new voice in her head for company. When she is accused of murder, Violet suspects her road to both freedom and recovery lies through confronting her painful past and solving the crime.

Magically summoned, Sean Joye skids through an ice storm to help Violet, but can they catch the killer and defy an eldritch horror before Violet loses her tenuous grasp on reality?

"The Talking Cure is a marvelous story-an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery infused with a strong sense of the Weird... and a hearty dose of magic on the side. It's ideal for all fans of the sinister, the surprising, and the strange."
-Cherie Priest, award-winning author of Boneshaker

Kathy L. Brown writes speculative fiction with a historical twist. Her hometown-St. Louis, Missouri, USA-and its history inspires much of her fiction. The haunted 1920s world of the Sean Joye Investigations book series was conceived
in a creative writing workshop in 2004. The idea wouldn't go away, and Kathy published two Sean Joye novellas while working on her first novel, The Big Cinch, which won the 2022 Imadjinn award for best urban fantasy novel.