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Jess 📚 Armstrong
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Author of the Ruby Vaughn Mysteries
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📚THE CURSE OF PENRYTH HALL | THE SECRET OF THE THREE FATES | THE DEVIL IN OXFORD (Nov 4, 2025)

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The New Orleans launch for The Devil in Oxford is coming up next week on 11/5 @bluecypressbooks.bsky.social see the link in next post for details. Hope to see yall there!
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The Goodreads giveaway for The Devil in Oxford is still open thru June 15 (US + CA only)

If you’re into:

🏺gothic mysteries x dark academia
🏺 academic rivalries
🏺forced proximity
🏺a scandalous 1920s sleuth who trips over bodies + the witch who loves her

Enter here www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Image of book cover for The Devil in Oxford for sale everywhere Nov 4, 2025. Cover is red and black with a gold detailed mask of Anubis flanked by hieroglyphic columns and a snowy cityscape of Oxford on the bottom.
June 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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There’s a Goodreads giveaway for the next Ruby Vaughn mystery, The Devil in Oxford! From today thru June 15 you can enter for a chance to win 1 of 50 advance reader copies of my new book before it comes out! You can enter here:

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The giveaway is US and Canada only
A picture of The Devil in Oxford on old news print with the same details as in the post for how to enter.
May 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Ruby Vaughn is back in November (lock picks, questionable morals and all) solving crimes in The Devil in Oxford. Here’s a Monday morning sneak peek 👀

Y’all I am SO excited for this book to be in reader hands. Hard to believe it’ll be third in the series!
May 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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And here it is!! The cover for the next Ruby Vaughn mystery, The Devil in Oxford!! Coming Nov 4 of this year! 🏺🖤
January 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Cover reveal for The Devil in Oxford (aka Ruby Vaughn 3) will be coming on Monday!!

Y’all it’s so perfect for this book! 🖤🏺
January 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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It’s here!! the Secret of the Three Fates and the paperback of The Curse of Penryth Hall both are hitting bookstores today!! If you like your gothic mysteries rompy, with a dash of romance and the supernatural—these are for you!!

read.macmillan.com/lp/the-secre...
December 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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So freaking excited to get home today and see my email that The Secret of the Three Fates is an Amazon Editor’s pick for December!! What a way to kick off pub week! I still can’t believe it’s in the world tomorrow!!!
December 3, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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New Orleans friends!! We’re celebrating the launch of the next Ruby Vaughn Mystery, The Secret of the Three Fates with a gothic themed escape room style mystery party on Dec 5 at Blue Cypress! Link for details and tickets below:

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-gothic-m...
November 26, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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My author copies are here for The Secret of the Three Fates and they are so beautiful!! I cannot believe the next installment in the Ruby Vaughn mysteries will be in the world in just over 2 weeks 🖤

coming Dec 3 in the US and Dec 5 in the UK.
Copy of The Secret of the Three Fates on broken bricks by pink flowers, a stand of pearls and a ring. The Secret of the Three Fates back cover copy: American heiress Ruby Vaughn still hasn't entirely forgiven her octogenarian employer and housemate Mr. Owen for bringing the occult into their lives during her recent trip to Cornwall. He claims their journey to Manhurst Castle in the Scottish Borders is simply to appraise and acquire illuminated manuscripts for their rare books shop, however when Ruby discovers there are no manuscripts and receives news of a séance to be held that very night, she begins to grow suspicious about the true reason why they have come. The Great War left grieving families willing to sacrifice anything for the chance to say goodbye to a lost loved one. Mr. Owen is no exception. He is desperate to speak to his son, but he doesn’t want to face the spirits alone. When the séance—hosted by a trio of mediums billing themselves as The Three Fates—goes awry, Mr. Owen’s secrets begin to unravel, threatening to reveal a history that he has been running from for half his life. Something Ruby knows all too well how to do. When Ruby finds one of the Three Fates murdered the night of the seance, she and Mr. Owen quickly become the prime suspects. To clear their names, Ruby enlists the help of Ruan Kivell, the folk healer Pellar who helped her weeks before in Cornwall. As their investigation progresses Ruby and Ruan realize someone is determined to prevent them from uncovering the truth about what happened to the dead medium.
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Houston bound to help celebrate my friend, Celeste Connally’s book launch today at @murderbooks.bsky.social
November 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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I just realized I haven’t been on here much. But uhm…the second Ruby Vaughn book—The Secret of the Three Fates—is coming this December!

If you like rompy gothic mysteries with vengeful spirits, messy heroines and slow burns (finally 🥵) burning—I have the book for you!
March 29, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Ahhh sharing this here—but The Curse of Penryth Hall was an Amazon Editors’ pick for December!! I’m so excited! She’ll be out on Tuesday!
Graphic showing book cover for The Curse of Penryth Hall and reads “Amazon editors’ pick ‘Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense of December’ on sale December 5, 2023” Screen shot from Amazon showing The Curse if Penryth Hall listed as an Editors’ pick
December 1, 2023 at 11:19 PM