The Fortune Teller's Factotum
The final cover
The stories were never far from Mary Dorn.
Some families tell a suppertime story of a relative who found a purse that held nine hundred and ninety-something dollars and handed it into the police. The better tale is how that relative pocketed it and blew the money on a spree in Vegas. Others have an uncle, or an aunt, who robbed a small-town bank and lived on the proceeds or got a stretch in jail and forever felt foolish. Some have a grandpa who swam the Hudson in winter or walked the Mason-Dixon line for kicks, a grandma who gave Richard Nixon a piece of her mind as he approached his car, or kissed JFK as he approached his–or the other ways round. Others feature a cousin spoken about only reluctantly, whose attempted burglary turned into a conflagration that maimed and traumatized, or a girl-cousin as removed as possible who, in a dispute over inches in a yard boundary, slaughtered a neighbor with a garden implement.
Mary’s family, the Firemont Dorns, was full of stories, but one put all the others in the shade: the family was full of mass murderers. It was never related at suppertime nor at any other time, just festered in corners of the Dorn house, as if waiting for Mary to tease it out.
Ashley Hyde and Mary Dorn were destined to renew an interrupted friendship, linked by a daytime TV celeb cat and ties they could never have guessed at. The Fortune Teller’s Factotum is a delve into the devastating secrets at the hearts of two families.
It will be published by Hear Our Voice LLC, a new US publisher on 31st October 2023. You can pre-order the book at this link:
Amazon.com: The Fortune Teller's Factotum eBook : Sweeney, Nick: Kindle Store
Some families tell a suppertime story of a relative who found a purse that held nine hundred and ninety-something dollars and handed it into the police. The better tale is how that relative pocketed it and blew the money on a spree in Vegas. Others have an uncle, or an aunt, who robbed a small-town bank and lived on the proceeds or got a stretch in jail and forever felt foolish. Some have a grandpa who swam the Hudson in winter or walked the Mason-Dixon line for kicks, a grandma who gave Richard Nixon a piece of her mind as he approached his car, or kissed JFK as he approached his–or the other ways round. Others feature a cousin spoken about only reluctantly, whose attempted burglary turned into a conflagration that maimed and traumatized, or a girl-cousin as removed as possible who, in a dispute over inches in a yard boundary, slaughtered a neighbor with a garden implement.
Mary’s family, the Firemont Dorns, was full of stories, but one put all the others in the shade: the family was full of mass murderers. It was never related at suppertime nor at any other time, just festered in corners of the Dorn house, as if waiting for Mary to tease it out.
Ashley Hyde and Mary Dorn were destined to renew an interrupted friendship, linked by a daytime TV celeb cat and ties they could never have guessed at. The Fortune Teller’s Factotum is a delve into the devastating secrets at the hearts of two families.
It will be published by Hear Our Voice LLC, a new US publisher on 31st October 2023. You can pre-order the book at this link:
Amazon.com: The Fortune Teller's Factotum eBook : Sweeney, Nick: Kindle Store
"Mary Dorn, where DID you get that gun?"
"The guns here barely work - honest."
