The Cuckoo's Song

About the Book

“Th e Cuckoo’s Song,” a paranormal mystery romance began as a short story, but Jane liked aging psychic Abigail Pierce, the main character so much, she continued writing until a novel emerged. Th e title was borrowed from a line in a seventeenth century Japanese poem. “I have heard the cuckoo’s song through to the end.” Transplanted to the Boston area from Houston, Texas, 20 years ago, Jane loves to read, sail around the harbor islands, and explore the back roads of New England.Periodically, she returns to Texas for a Margarita fi x and Tex-Mex cooking.

About the Author

JANE DEWS Author of “The Cuckoo’s Song”

Writer Jane Dews lives in historic Quincy, Massachusetts, just across the bay from Boston with husband, Ken Benkart. A former college teacher in the field of management, with an M.B.A. from Louisiana Tech University, she left teaching to work in the private sector as an accounting manager. But writing was always her first love.

.In 2001, Jane Dews’ first novel, “Sunrise,” a main stream romance was published by Gardenia Press of Milwaukee. “Sunrise” won the Gold Award in the Fiction Romance category of Forward Magazine’s Book of the Year Competition.

“The Cuckoo’s Song,” a paranormal mystery romance began as a short story, but Jane liked aging psychic Abigail Pierce, the main character so much, she continued writing until a novel emerged. The title was borrowed from a line in a seventeenth century Japanese poem. “I have heard the cuckoo’s song through to the end.”

Jane now devotes full time to writing and is deep into another mystery, “A Scream in the Dark, that she hopes to complete before the new year.

Transplanted to the Boston area from Houston, Texas, 20 years ago, Jane loves to read, sail around the harbor islands, and explore the back roads of New England. Periodically, she returns to Texas for a Margarita fix and Tex-Mex cooking.