A note about Avenue of Mysteries

As a novelist, I know something that works better than any synopsis of what a new novel is about. You would be better off reading the first few paragraphs of the first chapter, because that’s all the author wanted you to know about the book before you start reading it for yourself. Believe me: the author just wants you to begin reading.

This is the beginning of my fourteenth novel, Avenue of Mysteries—just the first five paragraphs of the first chapter: