The first book in the Miriam Black series: āA sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal slantā (The Guardian) about a young woman who can see the darkest corners of the future.
Miriam Black knows how youāre going to die. This makes her daily life a living hell, especially when you canāt do anything about it, or stop trying to. Sheās foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. She merely needs to touch youāskin to skin contactāand she knows how and when your final moments will occur. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. But when she hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees in thirty days that Louis will be murdered while he calls her nameā Louis will die because he met her, and Miriam will be the next victim. No matter what she does she canāt save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, sheāll have to try.
āThink Six Feet Under co-written by Stephen King and Chuck Palahniukā (SFX), and you have Blackbirds: a visceral, exciting novel about life on the edge.