Trailbreaker by Ruthie Knox and Annie Marie ~ Spotlight

Posted February 5, 2026 by karenbaron in Blog Tour, Contest - Giveaway, Spotlight / 1 Comment

Trailbreaker

Series: Prairie Nightingale #2

Author: Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare

Genre: Private Investigator Mystery

Setting: Wisconsin

Release Date: January 27, 2026, by Thomas & Mercer

Pages: 229

Summary:

Suspicions that a serial killer is terrorizing a pristine tourist spot draw a single mom and budding private investigator into a twisting and deepening mystery of secrets and murder.

Single mom and newly minted private investigator Prairie Nightingale has opened the doors of her Green Bay, Wisconsin, agency and is ready for work. She and her crew aren’t quite prepared for their first client, though: Bernie Dubicki, a notorious online journalist and not-altogether-reliable provocateur, who claims the idyllic vacation destination of nearby Door County is home to a serial killer.

She’s pinpointed four seemingly unrelated deaths that haven’t raised suspicions for anyone else. But when a college student vanishes, Bernie’s sizable retainer convinces Prairie to help connect the dots. And trusted, flirty FBI agent Foster Rosemare thinks Bernie might be onto something. Prairie never expected her first investigation to be so big―like Dateline big―but she does have an inquiring mind and a knack for seeing things no one else can.

In this case she’ll have to look deep―not only into the secrets of strangers, but into Door County’s woods―to solve a mystery decades in the making.

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Prairie Nightingale Series

About the Author

Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare write critically acclaimed, bestselling mystery and romance, usually (but not always) together. They are the authors of the Prairie Nightingale mysteries and the TV Detectives mystery series. If you want more of their stories, check out their queer romances co-written as Mae Marvel, as well as solo work by Ruthie Knox (het romance), Annie Mare (grounded queer paranormal romance), and Robin York (Ruthie’s pen name for New Adult romance). Ruthie and Annie are married and live with two teenagers, two dogs, multiple fish, two glorious cats, four hermit crabs, and a bazillion plants in a very old house with a garden.

Giveaway

Prize: One grand prize winner, we’ll send autographed paperback copies of both books in the Prairie Nightingale series, HOMEMAKER and TRAILBREAKER, as well as hardback copies of our first two books in the TV Detective series, BIG NAME FAN and LOVE A COMEBACK. Plus 3 winners will receive a paperback copy of Trailbreaker.

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