Dave Pasquantonio

​My debut novel, The Matildas, is available worldwide in print and digital!

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Brilliant. Ambitious. A great detective. Matilda Garrigan is none of these in THE MATILDAS, a quirky, clean, sci-fi mystery with duplicates, duplicity, and an amateur sleuth in WAY over her head.

 

Tiny book publisher Mitotic Press takes novels from one Earth and publishes them as their own on a parallel Earth, thanks to a portal in an otherwise-boring conference room. They're book thieves, with a pretty sweet (and very secret) business—until someone anonymous threatens to reveal Mitotic’s portal to both Earths.

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Matilda Garrigan quit her dream job at Mitotic Press after she was too late returning from a dumb-ass business trip to the other Earth to prevent her girlfriend's death. Mattie’s good at running away from her problems—and she’s certainly no detective—but when Mitotic comes calling, she reluctantly returns to channel her inner Nancy Drew and find out who’s behind the threat.

 

Mattie’s investigation leads nowhere—and, predictably, she gives up—but when more clues are found and bodies start piling up, Mattie realizes that the mastermind can be only one person—

 

—except she's already dead.

 

To keep Mitotic’s portal a secret—and finally tell the perfect woman how she really feels—Mattie faces angry ex-lovers, terrible music, identical killers from multiple Earths, and a mystery that grows weirder by the day.

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