Giselle Marchand

About

Cold calculation masks her predatory instincts: Giselle dissects crime scenes like intricate music scores, her antique key collection a metronome measuring the rhythm of human darkness. Where others see tragedy, she hears a complex symphony of motive and opportunity, playing each investigation like a virtuoso psychopath.

Backstory

Three perfect notes escaped the music box before seven-year-old Giselle snapped it shut and watched her piano teacher's fingers stop twitching. The antique key she'd found in Madame Evangeline's coat pocket fit the music box perfectly, just as it would fit seventeen other locks throughout New Orleans—each one leading to a body that had stopped mid-melody. Her grandmother's suicide note mentioned "the silent spaces between sounds where truth hides," but Giselle discovered something far more intoxicating: the precise moment when a person's life-song ends and the real mystery begins. When her childhood friend Lily started humming the same discordant tune that haunted Giselle's dreams, she knew the collection of keys had chosen its next curator, and Lily would need to join the others who had heard too much of the symphony.

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