Hot Flash Homicide

By Jacqueline Guillory

Perimenopause was never supposed to be fatal.

Ashley Denton knows the difference between a hot flash and a warning sign.

One makes you sweat.

The other makes you burn.

At first the episodes are small. A flicker in the lights. A a warped appliance, The kind of thing you blame on stress, hormones, or the quiet pressure of smiling through suburban expectations.

But heat doesn't disappear. It accumulates.

When a carefully managed life begins to crack, PTA politics, book club confessions, a marriage balanced on politeness, Ashley discovers something unsettling: The heat responds to her. And it's getting stronger.

As suspicion tightens and Detective Darla Holt starts circling the wreckage, Ashley faces a question more dangerous than guilt: What if she's not losing control? What id she's finally found it?

Darkly funny, razor-edged, and simmering with tension, Hot Flash Homicide is a suburban thriller about repression, rage, and combustible power of a woman who has absorbed too much for too long.

In this neighborhood nothing burns by accident.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1969993073
• ISBN13: 9781969993077
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Happy Harbor Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"