The The Alchemist of Fire and Fortune, the 5th Accidental Alchemist mystery, is out in the world today!
Here’s what’s in store this time for Zoe and Dorian:
The Goonies meets Charade in the 5th novel in the Anthony Award-winning Accidental Alchemist cozy mystery series. A blackmailer obsessed with gold, a boyfriend who’s more than he seems, and a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast lead Zoe Faust and Dorian Robert-Houdin on an adventure that could leave their found family changed forever.
I’ve been a fan of the movie The Goonies since I was a kid. Set on the Oregon coast in Astoria, it’s why I gave Max Liu a backstory of growing up in Astoria, and in this book I get to fully explore that sense of adventure of pirate treasure on the Oregon coast.
Le Penseur (The Thinker) is one of my favorite gargoyles at Notre Dame in Paris. He’s the gargoyle who inspired Dorian's character in my Accidental Alchemist Mysteries. I truly don’t think I would have created a living gargoyle character if I hadn't been writing only for myself as therapy while going through chemotherapy a decade ago, but now I cannot imagine my life without him!
There’s no stopping Dorian’s personality, so he gets his own point of view chapters in The Alchemist of Fire and Fortune. He gets his own chapters in the next book in the series I’m working on now.