On Sale: Feb 9, 2027
Page Count: 144 pages
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13: 9781454972983

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The admin for a corporate retreat and a body splitting alien team up to solve the murder of the company’s president at a closed ski resort before their alien overlords inflict dire consequences for humanity’s collective insubordination, in this horror comedy murder mystery for the ages.

Nia would probably rather be anywhere than a closed ski resort, supporting Hugh Callahan, the president of Crestone Learning, at a company retreat. As the only admin, she is responsible for pretty much everything, from making sure that meals are on time, resources prepared for speeches and ALSO APPARENTLY of solving the murder of the aforementioned and newly deceased Hugh Callahan, who was found murdered in a resort hot tub.

Meanwhile, Khearozoth, a 4th level subordinate class of shelfol’gah, only had one job at the retreat: to make sure that Hugh was appropriately verbose in honoring his master, Ak Gorug. Because in addition to leading Crestone Learning, Hugh was also a shelfol’gah vassal.

When Ak-Gorug learns about Hugh’s death, he tasks Khearozoth with finding the killer. Khearozoth subsequently deputizes Nia, by making it clear that a failure to find Hugh’s killer will have dire consequences for all of them. There is a killer on the loose—and Ak-Gorug does not brook disappointments…

The Upper Tentacle is a horror murder mystery buddy comedy, rolled up into one.

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Amanda Helms

About the Author

Amanda Helms is a black/white biracial writer living with her family in Colorado. Her work has been published in FIYAH, Lightspeed and Fireside Fiction, among other venues.

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