Jason Davey Mysteries

Jason Davey's last job was aboard the Star Sapphire cruising from Vancouver to Alaska. Now Jason's back on shore, and he has a regular gig at a jazz club in London.When Dominic, Jason's film-student son, asks his dad to help track down a missing musician for a documentary he's making, Jason leaps at the chance.Ben Quigley played rhythm guitar in Jason's parents' folk group Figgis Green in the late 1960s. And he dropped off the face of the earth four years ago.Jason's search ultimately takes him to Peace River, Alberta - 300 miles from Edmonton in Canada's frozen north. And what he discovers there is both intriguing - and disturbing. Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age three, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent, the Managing Editor of a literary magazine and a Program Assistant at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. More short stories followed, and then novels: Skywatcher, The Cilla Rose Affair, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, In Loving Memory, and Marianne's Memory. Winona began her Jason Davey Mystery series in 2017 with the novella, Disturbing the Peace. Two further novels followed: Notes on a Missing G-String and Lost Time. Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Jason Davey series.Winona lives in New Westminster, British Columbia where she is the BC/YK/NWT Representative for the Crime Writers of Canada as well as an active member of Sisters in Crime.

Jason Davey's back, and this time he's investigating the theft of £10,000 from a dancer's locker at a Soho gentlemen's club.Jason initially considers the case unsolvable. But the victim, Holly Medford, owes a lot of money to London crime boss Arthur Braskey and, fearing for her life, has gone into hiding at a posh London hotel.Jason's investigation takes him from Cha-Cha's and Satin & Silk (two Soho lapdancing clubs) to Moonlight Desires (an agency featuring high class escorts) and finally to a charity firewalking event, where he comes face to face with Braskey and discovers not everything Holly's been telling him is the complete truth.As he becomes increasingly drawn into the seamy underside of Soho, Jason tries to save Gracie, his band-mate's 14-year-old runaway daughter, from Holly's brother Radu, a ruthless pimp, while at the same time protecting Holly herself from a vengeful Braskey – nearly losing his life, and Gracie's – in the process.Notes on a Missing G-String is the second book in Winona Kent's mystery series featuring jazz musican-turned-amateur sleuth Jason Davey. Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age three, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent, the Managing Editor of a literary magazine and a Program Assistant at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. More short stories followed, and then novels: Skywatcher, The Cilla Rose Affair, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, In Loving Memory, and Marianne's Memory. Winona began her Jason Davey Mystery series in 2017 with the novella, Disturbing the Peace. Two further novels followed: Notes on a Missing G-String and Lost Time. Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Jason Davey series.Winona lives in New Westminster, British Columbia where she is the BC/YK/NWT Representative for the Crime Writers of Canada as well as an active member of Sisters in Crime.

In 1974, top UK band Figgis Green was riding high in the charts with their blend of traditional Celtic ballads mixed with catchy, folky pop. One of their biggest fans was sixteen-year old Pippa Gladstone, who mysteriously vanished while she was on holiday with her parents in Spain in March that same year.Now it's 2018, and founding member Mandy Green has reunited the Figs for their last-ever Lost Time Tour. Her partner, Tony Figgis, passed away in 1995, so his place has been taken by their son, professional jazz guitarist (and amateur sleuth) Jason Davey.As the band meets in a small village on the south coast of England for pre-tour rehearsals, Jason's approached by Duncan Stopher, a diehard Figs fan, who brings him a photo of the band performing at the Wiltshire Folk Festival. Standing in the foreground is Pippa Gladstone. The only problem is the Wiltshire Folk Festival was held in August 1974, five months after Pippa disappeared. Duncan offers Jason a substantial sum of money to try and find out what really happened to the young woman, whose mother had her declared officially dead in 1981.When Duncan is murdered, it becomes increasingly clear to Jason that his investigation into Pippa's disappearance is not welcome, especially after he follows a series of clues which lead him straight back to the girl's immediate family.But nothing can prepare Jason for the truth about Pippa, which he discovers just as Figgis Green is about to take to the stage on opening night-with or without him.Lost Time is the third book in Winona Kent's mystery series featuring jazz musican-turned-sleuth Jason Davey. Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age three, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent, the Managing Editor of a literary magazine and a Program Assistant at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. More short stories followed, and then novels: Skywatcher, The Cilla Rose Affair, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, In Loving Memory, and Marianne's Memory. Winona began her Jason Davey Mystery series in 2017 with the novella, Disturbing the Peace. Two further novels followed: Notes on a Missing G-String and Lost Time. Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Jason Davey series.Winona lives in New Westminster, British Columbia where she is the BC/YK/NWT Representative for the Crime Writers of Canada as well as an active member of Sisters in Crime.

In Lost Time, professional musician / amateur sleuth Jason Davey was rehearsing for Figgis Green's 50th Anniversary Tour of England. Now they're on the road.But when a fortune-teller in Sheffield warns them of impending danger, the band is suddenly plagued by a series of seemingly-unrelated mishaps.After Jason is attacked and nearly killed in Cambridge, and a fire alarm results in a very personal theft from Mandy's hotel room, it becomes clear they're being targeted by someone with a serious grudge.And when Figgis Green plays a gig at a private estate in Tunbridge Wells, that person finally makes their deadly intentions known.Jason must rely on his instincts, his Instagram "guardian angel," and a wartime ghost who might possibly share his DNA, in order to survive.Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Winona Kent's mystery series featuring jazz musican-turned-amateur sleuth Jason Davey. Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age three, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent, the Managing Editor of a literary magazine and a Program Assistant at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. More short stories followed, and then novels: Skywatcher, The Cilla Rose Affair, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, In Loving Memory, and Marianne's Memory. Winona began her Jason Davey Mystery series in 2017 with the novella, Disturbing the Peace. Two further novels followed: Notes on a Missing G-String and Lost Time. Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Jason Davey series.Winona lives in New Westminster, British Columbia where she is the BC/YK/NWT Representative for the Crime Writers of Canada as well as an active member of Sisters in Crime.

Musician Jason Davey ran away to sea after the death of his wife, finding work as a contract entertainer aboard the cruise ship Star Sapphire. But when faces from his past come aboard as passengers, Jason's routine weeklong trip to Alaska becomes anything but relaxing.Jason's wife once worked for Diana Wyndham, a beautiful and eccentric actress. And hard-drinking ex-rocker, Rick Redding, once toured with a band Jason has strong ties to. Now Diana occupies one of the ship's luxury suites, and Rick dwells in the stateroom next door. Between them, they may know more about Jason's secret past than anyone suspects.Jason narrates his-and the Sapphire's-story with drama, humor, and a touch of the supernatural as he tries to survive a trial by fire and ice on the journey to Juneau, Skagway, and Glacier Bay. Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age three, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent, the Managing Editor of a literary magazine and a Program Assistant at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. More short stories followed, and then novels: Skywatcher, The Cilla Rose Affair, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, In Loving Memory, and Marianne's Memory. Winona began her Jason Davey Mystery series in 2017 with the novella, Disturbing the Peace. Two further novels followed: Notes on a Missing G-String and Lost Time. Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Jason Davey series.Winona lives in New Westminster, British Columbia where she is the BC/YK/NWT Representative for the Crime Writers of Canada as well as an active member of Sisters in Crime.