Past Rites
Lies hurt. Truth kills.
Four years after the tragic suicide of Alice Delgado, eldest daughter of Albuquerque's top racing driver, her younger sister, Lily, is reported missing and two of her peers are found dead. Detective Temeke's investigation leads him to a private boarding school on the Rio Grande where the discovery of occult practices and an ancient book ignite a chain reaction of heart breaking truths and demonic attacks.
What madness connects these girls to a ruthless killer? Against a background of simmering police tension and mounting victims, detectives Temeke and Santiago are in a desperate race to learn the truth before it's too late.
Past Rites is a dark and gripping novel that challenges heartache and reveals the truths about our hidden demons.
About Claire Stibbe (Albuquerque, New Mexico Author)
Claire Stibbe is a graduate of the Albuquerque 50th Citizen's Police Academy, Sheriff’s Department CPA, Alumni member and reporter for Stand True 4 Blue. She has written four books in the Detective Temeke Crime series set in New Mexico. The first in the series is a finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona 2016 Book Awards for Fiction/Mystery/Suspense and two eBooks have been best-sellers on the Amazon kindle fiction Top 100 list. She is currently working on the fifth book.
In addition to writing crime fiction, Claire has published an Egyptian fiction series which was a gold medal recipient at Harper Collins Publishers showcase website, Authonomy. She is British and lives in the US.
You can find out more about the author at www.cmtstibbe.com and on Twitter and Instagram @CMTStibbe
